The Wild Party

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The Wild Party is a 1975 Merchant Ivory Productions film directed by James Ivory, produced by Ismail Merchant, 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... more
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  • Mar 1975

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  • 1 h 49 min

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James Ivory

James Francis Ivory (born June 7, 1928) is an award-winning American film director, best known for the results of his long collaboration with Merchant Ivory Productions, which included both Indian-born producer Ismail Merchant and screenwriter Ruth Prawer Jhabvala. Their films won six Academy...

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  • The life of the party and HOW!

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  • 1 h 49 min
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