A Night at the Opera (film)
- Groucho Marx: Otis B. Driftwood
- Harpo Marx: Tomasso
- Chico Marx: Fiorello
- Kitty Carlisle: Rosa Castaldi
- Allan Jones: Ricardo Baroni
- Walter Woolf King: Rodolfo Lassparri
- Sig Ruman: Herman Gottlieb
- Margaret Dumont: Mrs. Claypool
- Edward Keane: captain
- Robert Emmett O'Connor: Detective Henderson
Scandal at the Opera ( original title: A Night at the Opera ) is a comedy of the Marx Brothers Groucho, Chico and Harpo and was her sixth published movie. It was filmed in 1935. The opera listed with obstacles in the film is Giuseppe Verdi's Il trovatore.
Action
The opera singer Rodolfo Lassparri and the singer Rosa Castaldi are hired by the wealthy Mrs. Claypool for the conductor of the opera in New York, Herman Gottlieb. This Lassparri repeatedly tried making the acquaintance Castaldi. But it is in love with Ricardo Baroni, a singer from the chorus. Since this is not committed ( which would result in that the two would be separated), his friend Fiorello turns. He transfers it to Otis B. Driftwood, the anbändelt with Mrs. Claypool. Driftwood is of the opinion, to engage Lassparri, but signs a contract with Baroni. When he discovers the fraud, bursts of contract.
As Driftwood, Mrs. Claypool, Gottlieb, Lassparri and Castaldi went on board the ship, discovered Driftwood that he has Fiorello, Tomasso and Ricardo Baroni put into his suitcase on board and they go as stowaways to America. When they are discovered shortly before the arrival, they come into custody. You can flee and escape into the cabin of three famous Russian pilots. After they overpower the pilot and are welcomed in their place with a keynote speech, they fly to. They flee to Driftwood, but promptly get a visit from the police. To make matters worse Driftwood loses his job in the theater and all four sitting on the road. They invade secretly to the theater and prevent Lasparris appearance. Since he is nowhere to be found, Baroni has to step in for him. Thus he gets his chance and use them. Baroni and Castaldi are again a couple and the audience in New York celebrates the two as a new star.
Reviews
" Exuberant, but little brilliant grotesque. Obsolete. "
" The first Marx Brothers film with a continuous action, which, however, conventional and satirical and exaggerated is insignificant. Highlights set the puns and actions often brilliant comedians. "
" Circus jokes and opera hero. A mostly silly comedy with a number of amusing clowning. "
Background
The film contains some classic scenes of the Marx Brothers:
- The negotiation between Groucho and Chico to the contract with Lassparri, where they reduce the contract more and more to only a narrow strip is left. They are, as in a bar, with one foot on the KO lying on the ground Lassparri rests.
- Driftwood moves into his tiny cabin and finds the three stowaways. First, he ordered food for all three and gradually come two maids, manicures, the ship plumber and the Heizingenieur, the cleaning lady, a girl who seeks his aunt, and the three stewards who bring the food into the cabin. Thus, fourteen persons including the giant suitcase in the room. At the end of Harpo located on the trays of the stewards. When Mrs. Claypool with the bellboy comes and opens the door, they fall against the persons in the cabin.
- " Speech " by Harpo on the harbor, where he only drinks several liters of water.
- The visit of the sheriff in Driftwood, who seeks the stowaways. While he is always running in circles around the living room, the balcony and the bedroom, the furniture vacate the four on the run from him from the living room to the bedroom and vice versa.