The Wild Party (1975 film)

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The Wilde Party
Directed by	James Ivory
Produced by	Ismail Merchant
Written by	Walter Marks (base on the poem by Joseph Moncure March)
Starring	James Coco Raquel Welch Perry King Tiffany Bolling Royal Dano David Dukes
Music by	Walter Marks Louis St. Louis (song)
Cinematography	Walter Lassally
Distributed by	AIP (theatrical cut version) MGM (DVD, directors cut)
Release date(s)	March, 1975
Running time	109 min. (director's cut)
Language	English
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The Wild Party is a 1975 film directed by James Ivory and starring James Coco as Jolly Grimm and Raquel Welch as Queenie.

An aging silent movie comic star (Coco) attempts a comeback by staging a party that turns into a sexual free-for-all. The comic ends up killing his mistress Queenie and her latest boyfriend (Perry King).

The film was loosely based on the poem by Joseph Moncure March, and filmed in Riverside, California. The poem was also made into two musicals, a Broadway show composed by Michael John LaChiusa which followed the poem very closely and an off-Broadway production composed by Andrew Lippa which took some artistic liberties with the poem but still less than this movie.

Dance scene choreographed by Patricia Birch (just after the work musical Grease with Louis St. Louis's music who also wrote that musical.

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