The Wild Party

The year is 1929 and sound films are arriving. Once a great star of the silent era, Jolly Grimm (James Coco) has wealth, a mansion, a manservant, Tex (Royal Dano), and a beautiful and faithful mistress, Queenie (Raquel Welch), but no longer Hollywood's interest. He desperately tries to get studio executives interested in his self-financed latest project, so he decides to throw a huge screening party at his house and show the film project footage to the attendees. The party turns into a loud, alcohol-fueled orgy. Jolly is unable to impress a Hollywood mogul (Eddie Lawrence), eager to move on to a more important social engagement, a party at Pickfair at the home of married stars Douglas Fairbanks and Mary Pickford, with the film displaying his out-of-fashion humor and pathos of his work. The more he drinks, the more angry Jolly becomes. The arrival of an underage girl, Nadine (Chris Gilmore), brings out a protective, possibly perverted interest on Jolly's part, while the attention paid to Queenie by virile young actor Dale Sword (Perry King) ignites a jealous fury in the sad comic that leads to violence, tragedy and death.