Party Girl (1958)
Directed by Nicholas Ray
Slick lawyer Thomas Farrell has made a career of defending mobsters in trials. It's not until he meets a lovely showgirl at a mob party that he realizes that there's more to life than winning trials. Farrell tries to quit the racket, but mob boss Rico Angelo threatens to hurt the showgirl if Farrell leaves him.
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What critics compared Party Girl to
Sometimes the speechifying comes after the bloodletting, as in Kill Bill Vol. 1 (2003) when Lucy Liu’s O-Ren Ishii calmly assuages any controversy over her Chinese-American heritage at a yakuza counsel after beheading a challenger—a sort-of inversion of Lee J. Cobb’s boardroom power play in Nicholas Ray’s Party Girl (1958), also embellished upon by Brian De Palma in The Untouchables (1987).