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With The Ritz, Terrence McNally's hit Broadway play of the same name is cinematized by director Richard Lester. Jack Weston plays Gaetano Proclo, a minor mob flunky who's been targeted for elimination by his brother-in-law, Carmine Vespucci (Jerry Stiller). Gaetano takes refuge in what he thinks is a Turkish bath. Actually, it's The Pits. That's the name, "The Pits" -- a gay bathhouse (this is the pre-AIDS era), where the exquisitely awful Googie Gomez (Rita Moreno) entertains the homosexual
Jan 1, 1976 Wide
Jan 8, 2008
Warner Home Video
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... a classic door-slamming sex farce with a '70s twist of big, broad, hearty gay stereotypes and Rita Moreno as a flamboyantly talentless singer...
OK version of the play enlivened by occasional flashes of Lester creativity.
Funny version of the Broadway show. Look for an early Treat Williams appearance.
A very funny comedy movie, with a great story and good actors. I really liked it.
September 6, 2010Super Reviewer
Very much a time capsule of a bygone era, everybody is enjoyably over the top but any time Rita Moreno shows up she blows everyone else off the screen in a performance of such reckless, hilarious abandon its a joy to behold.
November 1, 2008
Super Reviewer
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