Movie
Party Girl
Overview
Slick lawyer Thomas Farrell has made a career of defending mobsters in trials. It's not until he meets a lovely showgirl at a mob party that he realizes that there's more to life than winning trials. Farrell tries to quit the racket, but mob boss Rico Angelo threatens to hurt the showgirl if Farrell leaves him.
Details
- Release date
- 1958-10-28
- Runtime
- 99 min
- Genres
- Crime, Drama, Romance
- Status
- Released
- Production
- Euterpe Productions, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
- Country
- United States of America
- Original language
- EN
Cast
- Robert Taylor as Tommy Farrell
- Cyd Charisse as Vicki Gaye
- Lee J. Cobb as Rico Angelo
- John Ireland as Louis Canetto
- Kent Smith as Jeffrey Stewart
- Claire Kelly as Genevieve Farrell
- Corey Allen as Cookie La Motte
- Lewis Charles as Danny Rimett
- David Opatoshu as Lou Forbes
- Kem Dibbs as Joey Vulner
- Patrick McVey as Detective O'Malley
- Barbara Lang as Ginger D'Amour
Crew
- Nicholas Ray - Director
- George Wells - Screenplay
- Leo Katcher - Story
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