A Night at the Opera (1935)
Genre:
Comedy / Romance / Musical (more)
Tagline: Don't miss it! The funniest picture ever made!
Plot Outline: A sly business manager and two wacky friends of two opera singers help them achieve success while humiliating their stuffy and snobbish enemies. (more) (view trailer)
User Comments:
Why are the Marx Brothers so popular?
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User Rating:
 
8.1/10 (6,775 votes)
top 250: #208
Runtime:
96 min / USA:93 min (1948 re-release)
Country:
USA
Language:
English / Italian
Color:
Black and White
Sound Mix:
Mono (Western Electric Sound System)
Certification:
Argentina:Atp / Australia:G / Finland:S / UK:U / USA:Unrated
Trivia:
Sig Ruman makes his first of three appearances in Marx Brothers films.
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Goofs:
Revealing mistakes: The elevator operator uses the old movie trick of rising from a squatting position to make it appear that the car is rising from the ground floor. Unfortunately, the white elevator certificate over his left shoulder remains motionless the entire time.
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Quotes:
[Fiorello and Driftwood go over the second clause of their contract]
Otis B. Driftwood:
Now, it says, uh, "The party of the second part shall be known in this contract as the party of the second part."
Fiorello:
Well, I don't know about that...
Otis B. Driftwood:
Now what's the matter?
Fiorello:
I no like-a the second party, either.
Otis B. Driftwood:
Well, you should of come to the first party. We didn't get home 'til around four in the morning. I was blind for three days!
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Awards:
1 win
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2 out of 3 people found the following comment useful:-
Why are the Marx Brothers so popular?, 13 August 2002
Author:
John Mankin ([email protected])
Scene from `A Night at the Opera': In a nightclub Groucho says `would you
like to rumba?' to a society dowager. As she stands up expectantly and
exclaims `why yes,' he says, `well pick a rumba from 1 to 5.' Now aside
from this being only one out of a whole series of incredibly lame jokes that
pepper a script that was supposedly co-authored by George S. Kaufman (on a
very bad day, apparently), what further kills the humor here is the woman's
mingled expression of hurt, bewilderment and anger as she sits down again.
This is indicative of Marx Brothers' comedy in general: juvenile anarchy
with a total disregard for anyone else's feelings. I suppose a lot of their
popularity is based on their rebellion against authority and societal
convention, but while watching `Opera' I found myself in the strange
position of identifying with the stony and irritated reactions of those who
are the butt of the brothers' disruptive pranks and insults. It's like
sitting in a schoolroom trying to learn something while the class clowns
behind you are doing their best to make damn sure you don't. Producer
Irving Thalberg tried to soften their abrasive style with an insipid plot in
which the brothers try to browbeat an opera house into giving two lovers a
chance to sing in `Il Trovatore' by making a shambles of the production.
However, it doesn't really help and when Chico and Harpo perform a
mini-concert for a group of happy, laughing children, the results are
cloying and tiresome in the extreme. In short, I did not laugh once during
this movie.
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