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Retrospective

A Night at the Opera

FromSam Wood

WithChico Marx, Groucho Marx, Harpo Marx, Kitty Carlisle, Margaret Dumont, Sig Ruman

Year1935

Duration91min.

MGM tried to soften the anarchic appeal of the Marx Brothers by adding audience-pleasing romances to their comedy: an endeavour that was only very slowly able to erode the brothers' outrageous humour. A Night at the Opera, the first and most successful MGM Marx work, is, according to Groucho, ‘the best of our films’ and has - not only because of the immortal cabin scene - Chaplin and Brecht, Ionesco and Dalí as unreserved fans. Guy Alombert on the Marx Brothers: ‘Relentless poetry, almost equally rabid misogyny, insatiable greed for money and a demonic hatred of stupidity.’ (Christoph Huber)

Photo: Austrian Film Museum