The Wild Party
The Wild Party (1975)
AIP Production #7501
Jeff and Cheryl decide whether to accept their invitations to The Wild Party.
Directed by James Ivory
Screenplay by Walter Marks
Based in part on “The Wild Party”, the 1928 narrative poem by Joseph Moncure March
Produced by Ismail Merchant
Starring:
James Coco as Jolly Grimm
Raquel Welch as Queenie
Perry King as Dale Sword
Tiffany Bolling as Kate
Royal Dano as Tex
David Dukes as James Morrison
Annette Ferra as Nadine Jones
Eddie Laurence as Kreutzer
Bobo Lewis as Wilma
Don De Natale as Jackie
Dena Dietrich as Mrs Murchison
Regis J. Cordic as A.J. Murchison
Jennifer Lee as Madeline True
Marya Small as Bertha
Baruch Lumet as the Tailor
Fredric Franklyn as Sam the Mogul
J.S. Johnson as Morris the Mogul
Tom Reese as Eddy, the Stuntman
Geraldine Baron as Grace
Michael Grant Hall as Oscar D’Armano
Skipper as Phillip D’Armano
Ralph Manza as Fruit Dealer
Lark Geib as Rosa
Jill Giraldi as Crippled Girl
Martin Kove as Editor
Barbara Quinn as Mildred
Gloria Gadhoke as Redhead
Nina Faso as Lady in Black
A Merchant Ivory Production
Released by American International Pictures
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Our open and close includes clips from the following films/trailers: How to Make a Monster (1958), The Brain That Wouldn’t Die (1962), I Was a Teenage Werewolf (1957), High School Hellcats (1958), Beach Blanket Bingo (1965), The Wild Angels (1966), It Conquered the World (1956), The Abominable Dr. Phibes (1971), and Female Jungle (1955)