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Nicholas Ray didn't initiate Party Girl, an MGM project conceived as a vehicle for Robert Taylor and Cyd Charisse, but it is, in characterization and thematic, one of his most personal films. Set in Prohibition era Chicago, Party Girl is a gangster film that is centred, uncharacteristically for the genre, on a love relationship. Tommy Farrell/Robert Taylor is a defense lawyer for mobster Rico Angelo/Lee J. Cobb while Vicki Gaye/Cyd Charisse works as a showgirl in a night club Rico controls. Tommy and Vicki meet at a party Rico gives when she, trying to shake off Louis Canetto/John Ireland who has given her his gambling winnings in return for her company, asks Tommy to take her home. When Tommy gets up to escort her out of the room, she discovers he is handicapped (a childhood accident in which his hip was smashed). Tommy has compensated for his physical deformity by becoming a powerful figure in his profession. Vicki also bears a childhood scar--as a teenager she was raped and the experience left her cynical about men who she has learned to financially exploit as a 'party girl'. Although both are attracted to one another,...
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