Room Service (1938 film)
- Groucho Marx: Gordon Miller
- Chico Marx: Harry Binelli
- Harpo Marx: Faker Englund
- Lucille Ball: Christine
- Ann Miller: Hilda
- Frank Albertson: Leo Davis
- Cliff Dunstan: Joseph Gribble
- Donald MacBride: Gregory Wagner
- Charles Halton: Dr. Glass
- Philip Loeb: Timothy Hogarth
- Philip Wood: Simon Jenkins
- Alexander Asro: Sasha
Room service was published the eighth film of the Marx Brothers Groucho, Chico, and Harpo Marx. It was filmed in 1938.
Action
The producer Gordon Miller desperately searches for a sponsor for his theater group. But when finally finds a financier, threatens the production to fail because the hotel manager insists on the payment of outstanding room bill.
A fast-paced comedy about a theater company has rented in a hotel for weeks and the biggest of all possible disasters threatens: not being able to play due to financial constraints. Therefore, producer, director and writer are constantly on the hunt for sponsors, as they must simultaneously try to steal their creditors from liability. For each risk, willing, trained in the virtuoso art of deception and carried by unwavering faith that even the greediest economists are bekehrbar, they pursue their goal. The foolishness to want to make in a hopeless situation Theater, finally frees more criminal than any adversary can muster.
Criticism
The lexicon of the International film ruled the room service was an " atypical Marx Brothers film, quite entertaining in itself " was. However, he came " not quite the stage template " go and " fall against the other films of the comedian from clear ".
Comments
Room service is an unusual film of the Marx Brothers, because it has no musical numbers. Moreover, it is the only movie they were shooting for RKO, and this, although they were still standing at the time at MGM under contract. Another special feature is that it is the only film that was not written specifically for them, but based on a stage play by Allen Boretz and John Murray, which was premiered in 1937 on Broadway.