| The Wild Party | |
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| Directed by | James Ivory |
| Screenplay by | Walter Marks |
| Based on | The Wild Party by Joseph Moncure March |
| Produced by | Ismail Merchant |
| Starring | |
| Cinematography | Walter Lassally |
| Music by | Walter Marks |
Production company | The Wild Party |
| Distributed by | American International Pictures |
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Running time | 91 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $900,000[2] |
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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