A Night at the Opera (1935)
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Cast
as Otis B. Driftwood
as Tomasso
as Fiorello
as Riccardo Baroni
as Mrs. Claypool

as Lassparri

as Henderson
as Rosa
as Herman Gottlieb

as Captain

as Detective Henderson
as Steward

as Major

as Immigration Inspector

as Engineer
as Engineer's Assistant/Peasant

as Extra on Ship and at Dock

as Police Captain

as Dancers

as Ruiz

as Azucena

as Ferrando
as Count di Luna

as Maid
as Stage Manager

as Committee

as Elevator Man

as Captain of Police

as Aviator

as Aviator

as Aviator

as Committee

as Committee

as Policeman

as Sign Painter

as Committee
as Committee

as Immigration Inspector

as Doorman

as Louisa

as Engineer's Assistant
Critic Reviews for A Night at the Opera
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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.
Never was a director more aptly named than Sam Wood: his movies are redwood forests of unrelieved monotony.
The loudest and funniest screen comedy of the Winter season.

The Brothers get to perform some of their most irresistible routines.

...Groucho's flirtation with respectability and devilish realization that it's much more rewarding to play the clown.
It is exciting and perfect; a sign that they have at last learned how to use every resource which Hollywood can offer them; and the simplest reason I can find for calling them funny beyond the power of words to spoil the fun.
Audience Reviews for A Night at the Opera
The Marx's Brothers are for sure one of the best comedians ever, and A Night At The Opera is a terrific prove of that.
Super Reviewer
I can't still completely warm up to the Marx Brothers, but I can't deny the film has some incredibly funny moments
Super Reviewer
Otis B. Driftwood is a small-time theatrical agent scamming the wealthy Mrs Claypool in a deal to sponsor a New York opera company. Meanwhile, the disreputable Fiorello and Tomasso are trying to help their friend Riccardo gain recognition as a tenor. The swindlers' plans collide during a very unorthodox production of Verdi's Il Trovatore ... This was the Marx Brothers first big-budget movie with MGM, and many cite it as their best film. It is a beautiful production by the legendary Irving G. Thalberg, with a first-rate script by the talented Broadplay playwright George S. Kaufman and some incredibly funny sequences. Personally, it's not my favourite but its a close second (my favorite would have to be Horse Feathers), purely because I think the romantic subplot between Carlisle and Jones gets in the way too much and there's not enough of the irresistible Dumont. That aside however, there is lots of wonderful music and plenty of side-splitting scenes; the pack-everyone-in-Groucho's-cabin episode, the contract-shortening sequence ("You no fool me, there is-a no Sanity Claus !"), the chase-the-beds-around-the-hotel-room bit and the total cultural destruction of that bastion of upper-class social prowess, the metropolitan opera, with Groucho throwing peanuts to the crowd and Harpo sliding pirate-style down the backdrops. A wonderfully nutty black-and-white comedy classic.

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A Night at the Opera Quotes
Otis B. Driftwood: | You know the old saying, twos company and fives a crowd |
Otis B. Driftwood: | You know the old saying. Two's company, fives a crowd. |
Otis B. Driftwood: | You know the old saying. Two's company, fives a crowd. |
Otis B. Driftwood: | Two beers, bartender! |
Otis B. Driftwood: | I'll take two beers, too. |
Fiorello: | I'll take two beers, too. |
Otis B. Driftwood: | Do they allow tipping on the boat? |
Steward: | Yes, sir. |
Otis B. Driftwood: | Have you got two fives? |