简介：Lawyer Thomas Farrell has made a career defending crooks in trials. He has never realised that there is a downside to his success, until he meets the dancer Vicki Gayle. She makes him decide to get a better reputation. But mob king Rico Angelo insists that he continues his services.
A film that might be regarded as Nicholas Ray's farewell to Hollywood (if not commercial filmmaking), as well as his tribute to Chicago in 20s, this 1958 feature is also one of his most affecting love stories. An unlikely alliance between a crippled and crooked lawyer (Robert Taylor) and a dancing showgirl (Cyd Charisse), both of whom try to escape the power of a tyrannical mobster (Lee J. Cobb), forms the basis for a flamboyant poem in delirious color and scope that is treated with a mixture of violence and lyricism that is unique to Ray.
在《阿飞正传》爱过、痛过、反叛过之后，尼古拉斯．雷执导了。这部被喻为他最具感染力的爱情电影。二十年代的芝加哥，瘸腿律师（罗伯特．泰勒）遇上美艷舞孃（赛德．查里斯）……两个本来不可能遇上的人，却因为要逃避一个黑帮恶汉（李科布）而情牵一线。尼古拉斯．雷在这部一九五八年黑色电影中，继续发挥他的看家本领，把浮夸色彩、浪漫意境及诗意暴力共冶一炉，叫人看得嘖嘖称奇。影片更影响了日后的美国黑帮电影，哥普拉的《教父》和狄庞马的《义胆雄心》都难免有《派对女郎》的影子。
