Flappers, speakeasies, and glittering marquees––director
James Ivory knows what ingredients are necessary to put together
The Wild Party (1975). Set in the roaring days of the 1920s, the glitzy Merchant-Ivory period piece is loosely based on a scandal involving famed silent-screen star
Fatty Arbuckle.
James Coco plays the rotund physical comedian, whose alcoholism and raging temper are causing mounting problems for his mistress,
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