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Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Binding: DVD
Brand: TWENTIETH CENTURY FOX HOME ENT
EAN: 9780792860808
Format: Anamorphic, Color, DVD-Video, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
ISBN: 0792860802
Label: MGM (Video & DVD)
Manufacturer: MGM (Video & DVD)
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: MGM (Video & DVD)
Region Code: 1
Release Date: June 15, 2004
Running Time: 109 minutes
Sales Rank: 7356
Studio: MGM (Video & DVD)
Theatrical Release Date: 1975-03
Editorial Review:
Product Description:
The highly celebrated and Oscar® nominated* Ismail Merchant and James Ivory swing back to Hollywood s heyday to tell this dazzling (The Hollywood Reporter) story of unchecked egotism and desperation. Featuring a bravura (Playboy) performance by Oscar® nominee** James Coco and a genuinely touching (Time) turn by Raquel Welch The Wild Party is a bash people will be talking about for years! 1920s Hollywood. Talkies have become the rage but silent film star Jolly Grimm (Coco) believes he still has a future. Ready to premiere his latest opus a picture in which he s invested his entire fortune Grimm throws a party at his mansion. But when his film is tepidly received and his gal (Welch) sneaks off with an up-and-coming star Grimm is forced to face a horrible truth about himself one that may lead to deadly consequences!System Requirements: Running Time 109 MinFormat: DVD MOVIE Genre: DRAMA Rating: R UPC: 027616906922 Manufacturer No: 1006506
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - An overlooked gem from Merchant Ivory
This is an early entry from the Merchant Ivory team, and one which was unjustifiably dismissed on its initial release.It's a creative, well filmed and acted period piece set in early Hollywood, loosley based on the Fatty Arbuckle scandal. All the angst, drama, insincerity, drugs and general debauchery is perfectly and vividly captured.The movie features great performances from the entire cast Raquel Welch is execellent, Perry King gorgeous and James Coco tragic.
This DVD restores some of the ... Read More
Rating:  - Don't waste your money
I bought this because Raquel Welch was in it. She did a good job but it's not worth it. I loss interest as sonn as I heard the guy talking about the people in the movie. This DVD was dated back to the 1920s and How a movie star struggles to get his life back.
Rating:  - AVERAGE MOVIE, I SUPPOSE ...
I just received my copy of The Wild Party.
A good story and great acting for a 1974 movie. However, a bit disappointing in some respects and I cannot see how it can have an R (under 18 age restriction) ? Didn't see nearly enough of the gorgeous Raquel Welch.
By today's standards, this is the equivalent of "Bambi" ..
I give it a 3 star rating (tops). Anyone looking for my second-hand DVD ?
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Rating: - ONE OF ROCKY'S BEST!!!
This has been a pretty good year for fans of the lovely AND talented Raquel Welch. First 20th Century Fox released "The Raquel Welch Collection" box set, then Warner Home Video gave us "The Last Of Sheila" and now "The Wild Party", probably one of Miss Welch's best films! And thanks to the fine folks at MGM we have the ORIGINAL, UN-CUT version not the version originally released by AIP back in the 70s. And what a glorious film it is! Rocky is just great as Queenie, the mistress of Jolly Grimm (James ... Read More
Rating: - Incredible restoration!
I am giving "Wild Party" 5 stars for a few reasons. Most significantly is that this is the version that James Ivory had submitted to the studio, which then recut it for distribution through American International.
I remember seeing WP when it was first released, and believe me that was an entirely different movie than is on this DVD. A.I. was known as the distributor that marketed exploitation flicks, so it purchased WP as it was cut to emphasize an orgy sequence.
Ivory is not a sensationalist, ... Read More
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