The Marx Brothers Room Service
A penniless theatrical producer must outwit the hotel efficiency expert trying to evict him from his room while securing a backer for his new play.
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DVD-R Details
- ORIGINAL ASPECT RATIO - 1.37:1
- Run Time: 1 hours, 18 minutes
- Video: Black & White
- Encoding: Region 0 (Worldwide)
- Released: July 14, 2020
- Originally Released: 1938
- Label: Warner Archives
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Groucho Marx, Chico Marx, Harpo Marx, Lucille Ball, Ann Miller & Frank Albertson | |
Performer: | Donald MacBride, Philip Loeb & Charles Halton | |
Directed by | William A. Seiter | |
Edited by | George Crone | |
Screenplay by | Morrie Ryskind | |
Composition by | Roy Webb | |
Art Direction by | Van Nest Polglase | |
Produced by | Pandro S. Berman | |
Director of Photography: | J. Roy Hunt |
Entertainment Reviews:
Rating: 3/4 --
This oft-dismissed exception in the Marx Brothers canon includes no musical numbers and only a few bits specifically tailored to the brothers...underrated.
Groucho Reviews
Rating: 1/5 --
Groucho, Chico and Harpo jump the shark.
Greenwich Village Gazette
Seiter's direction keeps the brothers at half speed, stuck to static material
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CinePassion
Rating: B- --
Still enough zaniness to make it a Marx Brother vehicle, but the craziness is diluted.
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Ozus' World Movie Reviews
Rating: 5/5 --
Some classic Marx bits make this a must-see.
Kansas City Kansan
Rating: 3/5 --
Not a Marx Bros. movie, but a movie with the Marxes. There is a difference.
Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC)
The original was outrageous enough even for the Marx boys, so it ought to be outrageous enough for anybody.
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Maclean's Magazine
Description by OLDIES.com:
Groucho plays penniless producer Gordon Miller, playing the angles as he tries to keep his cast housed in the Great White Way Hotel while casting about for a backer for his play Hail and Farewell. Alas, the efforts of Gordon and his cohorts (Chico, Harpo and Lucille Ball) aren't faring well, and all hail is about to break loose, what with the steady stream of hotel uppity-ups and house cops and the We Never Sleep Collection Agency man at the door. But wait. No one, Gordon thinks, would toss a sick man on the street because he can't pay his hotel bill. That leads to a diagnosis of madcap comedy involving feigned illness, two faked suicides, a kidnapped doctor, a bogus doctor and lots more Marxist doctorin'. It's all good medicine.
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- Sales Rank: 17,724
- UPC: 883929716494
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