The Wild Party (1975 film)

The Wild Party
The Wild Party
	Film poster
Directed by	James Ivory
Screenplay by	Walter Marks
Based on	The Wild Party; by Joseph Moncure March
Produced by	Ismail Merchant
Starring	James Coco; Raquel Welch; Perry King; Tiffany Bolling; Royal Dano; David Dukes;
Cinematography	Walter Lassally
Music by	Walter Marks
Production; company	The Wild Party
Distributed by	American International Pictures
Release dates	May 9, 1975 (Washington, D.C.);
Running time	91 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English
Budget	$900,000

The Wild Party is a 1975 American comedy-drama film directed by James Ivory and produced by Ismail Merchant^[3] for Merchant Ivory Productions. Loosely based on Joseph Moncure March's narrative poem of the same name, the screenplay is written by Walter Marks, who also composed the score. The plot follows an aging silent movie comic star of the 1920s named Jolly Grimm (James Coco) attempts a comeback by staging a party to show his new film.

Shot 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 but still less than this film.

A dance scene was choreographed by Patricia Birch.

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