a disappointment . i would see party girl some year ago ( maybe 20 ) and be ecstatic . the film take cult dimension in my memory . and have watch it the other day and oh my god and i say and what be all the fuss about . even for 1958 the story be too melodramatic and the gangster plot too lame and the act bad all round . taylor play an interesting part and his attire be first class and so be the mask he wear and mustache and all and plant on his beautiful self by the makeup department . and there the feat end . he stiff a usual and proud of it . cyd charisse doesn not even try to act . she dance well and that all . a for tough guy lee j. cobb usually a very good actor he plain bad . he bellow and gesticulate italian style and laugh out loudly and scream most of the time and show sign of acute boredom . after all he have to play someone name rico angelo which to me sound like a travesty of an italian mobster name . the plot be no good . bad guy lawyer be finally testify against former employer who both die in the most ludicrous final scene in the history of gangster movie represent both choose to stand by the wide window pane while police be fire from below the street . john ireland get hit and lee j. cobb hold the vial with the hydrochloric acid he threaten to empty on cyd chariss face and a bullet hit it and it burn his face . wow . no and i be a great fan of nicholas ray work i really worship this director but this must be about the bad thing he do for the screen . a happy end seem very inappropriate for the gloomy atmosphere ( in the script but nowhere in the cinematography and ala . ) and 1958 be not so remote a year even from black and white noirs and like the asphalt jungle to name just one . this be mob mickey mouse .