A Night at the Opera (1935)
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Reviews Counted: 33 Fresh: 32 Rotten:1 Average Rating: 8.5/10
Runtime: 1 hr 32 mins
Synopsis:
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... [More]
Genre: Comedies
Starring: Marx Brothers, Kitty Carlisle, Allan Jones, Sig Ruman, Walter Woolf King
Director: Sam Wood
Producer: Irving Thalberg
Screenwriter: George S. Kaufman, Morrie Ryskind, Al Boasberg, Bert Kalmar, Harry Ruby, James Kevin McGuinness
Composer: Herbert Stothart
Producer: Irving Thalberg
Screenwriter: George S. Kaufman, Morrie Ryskind, Al Boasberg, Bert Kalmar, Harry Ruby, James Kevin McGuinness
Composer: Herbert Stothart
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Reviews
The backstage finish, with Harpo doing a Tarzan on the fly ropes, contains more action than the Marxes usually go in for, but it relieves the strictly verbal comedy and provides a sock exit.
06/26/07 05:03 PM
Top Critic Fondly remembered for such classic comedy bits as Groucho and Chico drafting a contract, the stateroom scene, and the hilarious climax where the brothers make a shambles of Il Trovatore. Sans Duck Soup, we'll watch this any day.
06/26/07 05:02 PM
Never was a director more aptly named than Sam Wood: his movies are redwood forests of unrelieved monotony.
06/26/07 05:01 PM
Top Critic [The Marx Brothers] still let the air out of stuffed shirts and barbecue a few sacred cows, but something got lost in all that MGMness when the screen's ultimate anti-authoritarian team starting working the Andy Hardy side of the street.
04/04/06 08:10 PM
The loudest and funniest screen comedy of the Winter season.
03/25/06 03:38 AM
Top Critic The Brothers get to perform some of their most irresistible routines.
01/26/06 03:16 AM
Fresh off the failure of "Duck Soup," this was the Marx Brothers' comeback movie. The effort shows.
11/18/05 06:47 AM
... all the classic hallmarks of the Marx Brothers — Groucho’s one-liners, musical numbers, rapid fire word play and Margaret Dumont — are present in the film
02/26/05 08:36 AM
May be the start of the slide, but it's still pretty close to the top.
07/31/04 09:13 PM
contains more memorable moments than usual with its tighter script and more consistent laugh lines
06/13/04 08:17 AM
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