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A Night at the Opera

1935

Sam Wood

The Marx Brothers, Groucho Marx, Harpo Marx, Chico Marx ...

8.3

46,753

Comedy Moved by a strange sense of business, Groucho gets all the stars of the Milano Opera on a boat headed to New York. Two stowaways also travel on the same boat: Harpo and Chico. The three of them stir up the boat, create a scandal in New York and turn the release day into a madness the opera world will never forget.

	Author	Review
United Kingdom	Jamie Russell BBC	"It's guaranteed to have you giggling from one end of the musical scale to the other (…) Rating: ★★★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
United States	Andre Sennwald The New York Times	"The loudest and funniest screen comedy of the Winter season."	POS
United States	Variety	"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."	POS
United States	Dave Kehr Chicago Reader	"The famous stateroom scene, though hilariously funny, is symptomatic of the whole picture, in which the brothers are no longer in charge, but stuffed off to one side (...) [This film] initiated their long decline."	NEU
United Kingdom	Geoff Brown Time Out	"The script's generally great (...) Dumont's completely great, and the Brothers get to perform some of their most irresistible routines"	POS
United Kingdom	Derek Malcolm The Guardian	"The film has several amazing sequences (...) The assaults on grand opera are at least as iconoclastic as anything the dadaists committed to the screen earlier"	POS
United Kingdom	David Parkinson Empire	"While this may not be the funniest Marx movie, it's undoubtedly the most polished (…) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 5)"	POS

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