NIGHT AT THE OPERA BY MARX BROTHERS (DVD)

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• Release Year: 1935
• Genre: Comedy, Musical, Romance
• Plot: 'Arguably their finest film. This is as good as it gets.'-Leonard Maltin's Movie & Video Guide; ; Arts patron Mrs. Claypool intends to pay pompous opera star Lassparri $1,000 per performance. Hey, maybe that's why they call it grand opera! ; ; Grand comedy, too, as Groucho, Chico and Harpo cram a ship's stateroom and more with wall-to-wall gags, one-liners, musical riffs and two hard-boiled eggs-all while skewering Lassparri's schemes and helping two young hopefuls (Kitty Carlisle and Allan Jones) get a break. To save the opera, our heroes must first destroy it. And they must also gain ocean passage as stowaways, pull the wool (if not the beards) over the eyes of City Hall, shred legal mumbo-jumbo into a Sanity Clause, pester dowager Claypool (Margaret Dumont) and unleash so much glee that many say this is the best Marx Brothers movie. Seeing is believing.
• Cast: Groucho Marx, Chico Marx, Harpo Marx, Kitty Carlisle, Allan Jones, Walter Woolf King, Sig Ruman, Margaret Dumont, Edward Keane, Robert Emmett O'Connor, Harry Allen, King Baggot, Marion Bell, Edna Bennett, Stanley Blystone, Al Bridge, Loie Bridge, Lorraine Bridges, Gino Corrado, Gennaro Curci, Olga Dane, Bill Days, Jay Eaton, Bess Flowers, Otto Fries, Bud Geary, Billy Gilbert, William Gould, George Guhl, Jonathan Hale, Chuck Hamilton, Eddie Hart, Oscar 'Dutch' Hendrian, Luther Hoobyar, Rodolfo Hoyos, George Irving, Selmer Jackson, Jack 'Tiny' Lipson, Wilbur Mack, Fred Malatesta, Jerry Mandy, Alphonse Martell, Edmund Mortimer, William H. O'Brien, Inez Palange, Claude Payton, Purnell Pratt, Hal Price, Rita, Rubin, Rolfe Sedan, Evelyn Selbie, Phillips Smalley, Harry Tyler, Ellinor Vanderveer, Zuke Welch, Leo White, James J. Wolf, Frank Yaconelli, Sam Wood, Edmund Goulding, George S. Kaufman, Morrie Ryskind, James Kevin McGuinness, Buster Keaton, Al Boasberg, Bert Kalmar, George Oppenheimer, Robert Pirosh, Harry Ruby, George Seaton, Carey Wilson, Irving Thalberg, Merritt B. Gerstad, William LeVanway, Herbert Stothart, Cedric Gibbons
• Director: Sam Wood
• Runtime: 1:31
• Company: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios Inc. (MGM), Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc., Turner Entertainment Co., Warner Home Video Inc.
• Media Format: Movie