Dec 9th
A Night at the Opera*** (U)
Headgate Theatre, Colchester
US 1935. MGM. 96m. bw
A grandiose opera company sails for New York, and an eccentric millionaire and his two sidekicks proceed to ruin it so that their friend can play the lead.
The Marx Brothers switch to the premier Hollywood studio MGM with their style only partly modified, in a lavish production with added fragments of characterisation (although the romance barely has a chance), but still plenty of typically brilliant Marx flourishes such as the Party of the First Part and the overcrowded cabin.
Written by: George S. Kaufman, Morrie Ryskind.
Producer: Irving Thalberg.
Director: Sam Wood.
Starring: Groucho Marx, Chico Marx, Harpo Marx, Allan Jones, Kitty Carlisle, Margaret Dumont, Sig Rumann, Walter Woolf King, Robert Emmett O'Connor, Billy Gilbert.
Photography: Merritt Gerstad.
Musical Direction: Herbert Stothard.
A Night at the Opera*** (U)
Headgate Theatre, Colchester
US 1935. MGM. 96m. bw
A grandiose opera company sails for New York, and an eccentric millionaire and his two sidekicks proceed to ruin it so that their friend can play the lead.
The Marx Brothers switch to the premier Hollywood studio MGM with their style only partly modified, in a lavish production with added fragments of characterisation (although the romance barely has a chance), but still plenty of typically brilliant Marx flourishes such as the Party of the First Part and the overcrowded cabin.
Written by: George S. Kaufman, Morrie Ryskind.
Producer: Irving Thalberg.
Director: Sam Wood.
Starring: Groucho Marx, Chico Marx, Harpo Marx, Allan Jones, Kitty Carlisle, Margaret Dumont, Sig Rumann, Walter Woolf King, Robert Emmett O'Connor, Billy Gilbert.
Photography: Merritt Gerstad.
Musical Direction: Herbert Stothard.
A NIGHT AT THE OPERA. Legendary producer Irving Thalberg tried to handle the Marx Brothers, and almost managed it.
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