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Party Girl (1958)

Party Girl poster
Directed by
Nicholas Ray
Genre
drama film, film noir
Country
United States
Runtime
1h 39m
Rated
NR
Rating
6.8 of 10 from 70 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A nightclub dancer gets entangled with a mob lawyer in 1930s Chicago. She tries to break free from her criminal connections while he faces pressure from his gangster boss.

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What happens

Party Girl is a 1958 American film noir shot in CinemaScope and Metrocolor, directed by Nicholas Ray and starring Robert Taylor, Cyd Charisse, and Lee J. Cobb. It was Charisse's final film and Taylor's next-to-last film for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer; they were the studio's last remaining major contract stars. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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