The Marx Brothers A Night at the Opera
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- Commentary by Leonard Maltin
- All-New Documentary Remarks on Marx
- Groucho Marx on "The Hy Gardner Show" (1961 Broadcast)
- 2 Vintage Shorts: Sunday Night at the Trocadero and Robert Benchley's Academy Award-Winning How to Sleep
- Theatrical Trailer
- Subtitles in English, French & Spanish
- Rated: Not Rated
- Closed captioning available
- Run Time: 1 hours, 32 minutes
- Video: Black & White
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: July 3, 2012
- Originally Released: 1935
- Label: Warner Home Video
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | The Marx Brothers | |
Performer: | Kitty Carlisle, Allan Jones, Sig Ruman, Walter Woolf King, Margaret Dumont, Edward Keane & Robert Emmett O'Connor | |
Featured: | Groucho Marx, Chico Marx & Harpo Marx | |
Directed by | Sam Wood | |
Edited by | William Le Vanway | |
Composition by | Herbert Stothart | |
Art Direction by | Ben Carré | |
Story by | James Kevin McGuinness | |
Produced by | Irving Thalberg | |
Director of Photography: | Merritt B. Gerstad |
Entertainment Reviews:
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Description by OLDIES.com:
Arts patron Mrs. Claypool intends to pay pompous opera star Lassparri $1,000 per performance. Hey, maybe that's why they call it grand opera! Grand comedy, too, as Groucho, Chico and Harpo cram a ship's stateroom and more with wall-to-wall gags, one-liners, musical riffs and two hard-boiled eggs - all while skewering Lassparri's schemes and helping two young hopfuls (Kitty Carlisle and Allan Jones) get a break. To save the opera, our heroes must first destroy it. And they must also gain ocean passage as stowaways, pull the wool (if not the beards) over the eyes of City Hall, shred legal mumbo-jumbo into a Sanity Clause, pester dowager Claypool (Margaret Dumont) and unleash so much glee that many say this is the best Marx Brothers movie. Seeing is believing.
Product Description:
While DUCK SOUP has risen to become emblematic of the Marx Brothers at their zaniest, A NIGHT AT THE OPERA represents the brothers at their finest. Under the inspired supervision of the boy genius Irving Thalberg, the script was penned by two of Hollywood's wittiest screenwriters, George Kaufman and Morrie Ryskind; the production values are substantially greater than in previous Marx Brothers works; the romantic leads, Kitty Carlisle and Allan Jones, are charming, first-rate stars; the supporting cast, led by Margaret Dumont, Sig Rumann, and Herman Gottlieb, turn in excellent performances; and the bent of the humor is honed from the surreal to a pointed attack on the lifestyles of the wealthy. The circuslike stateroom scene is among the funniest in motion-picture history. Harpo's performance of the hit song "Alone" is perhaps his finest harp solo. Directed by Sam Wood, A NIGHT AT THE OPERA was the Marx Brothers' greatest commercial and critical success.
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- UPC: 012569596924
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