又名: 歌台三怪杰 / 歌剧院之夜
编剧: 乔治·S·考夫曼 莫里·里斯金德 詹姆斯·凯文·麦吉尼斯 巴斯特·基顿 阿尔·博斯伯格 伯特·卡尔马 乔治·奥本海默 罗伯特·佩罗 哈里·鲁比 乔治·希顿 凯里·威尔逊
主演: 格劳乔·马克斯 奇科·马克斯 哈勃·马克斯 基蒂·卡莱尔 艾伦·琼斯 Walter Woolf King 西戈·鲁曼 玛格丽特·杜蒙 爱德华·基恩 罗伯特·埃米特·奥康纳 Enrique Acosta Harry Allen Sam Appel 金·巴格特 Marion Bell Edna Bennett 斯坦利·布莱斯通 阿尔·布里奇 Loie Bridge Lorraine Bridges Nina Campana Jack Chefe 露丝·谢林顿 Martin Cichy 基诺·科拉多 Gennaro Curci Sidney D'Albrook Bill Days Mario Dominici Mike Donovan 杰伊·伊顿 Fanchon Adolph Faylauer Antonio Filauri Harry Fleischmann 贝丝·弗劳尔斯 Otto Fries Bud Geary 比利·吉尔伯特 威廉·古尔德 Julia Griffith George Guhl 乔纳森·哈勒 Ben Hall Oscar 'Dutch' Hendrian Luther Hoobyar Art Howard Rodolfo Hoyos 乔治·欧文 塞尔默杰克逊 格温·李 Jack 'Tiny' Lipson Wilbur Mack Tandy MacKenzie Tom Mahoney 弗雷德·马拉泰斯塔 Jerry Mandy Alphonse Martell Francisco Marán Charles McAvoy 汤姆·麦奎尔 Frank McClure 埃德蒙·莫蒂默 詹姆斯·C·莫顿 George Nardelli Field Norton Alex Novinsky 韦奇伍德·诺埃尔 威廉·H·奥布莱恩 Inez Palange Claude Payton Alexander Pollard 拉斯·鲍威尔 珀内尔·普拉特 Hal Price Ronald R. Rondell Alexander Schoenberg Earl Seaman 罗尔夫·塞丹 Evelyn Selbie Bruce Sidney 菲利普斯·斯莫利 Stephen Soldi 约翰·圣波利斯 Count Stefenelli
制片国家/地区: 美国
上映日期: 1935-11-15(美国)
片长: 91分钟 IMDb: tt0026778 豆瓣评分:7.2 下载地址:迅雷下载
Marrying the Marx brothers’ nonsensical knockabout with the highfalutin opera scenery, Sam Wood’s A NIGHT AT THE OPERA is an earnest bid to gratify both audience’s eyes and ears, while the narrative is largely inconsequential, ceding its primacy to various skits of the brothers’ trademark drollness and virtuosity.
Off the top of this reviewer’s head (or frankly any viewer’s), the most memorable set piece is the cockamamie 15-people-crammed-inside-a-pokey-stateroom lunacy that flat throws any vestigial concern about logic into the oblivion, typifies the brothers’ comic style and mass appeal that espouses a “the more the merrier” tenet and unlike antecedents like Chaplin or Keaton, trenchant social or political commentary can find no room in the brothers’ schticks, even if political schism is alluded to during the 3 impersonating aviators’ public address, the moniker of that elephant-in-the-room is eschewed entirely.
Among the three brothers (the film is their first movie made in MGM and without a fourth brother Zeppo), Groucho plays a caddish (Dumont, as a minted New York dowager, takes the short end of the stick with profuse poise and grievance) and pesky business manager of and proves that infallible adage - empty vessel makes the most noise, and his painted mustache becomes a requisite distraction from his witticism-lite rodomontade; Chico comports himself comparatively better, although as a general rule, to see middle-age men act like petulant, puerile beings is something not everyone can suffer gladly, but credit when credit is due, Chico and Groucho’s two-hander of signing a contract is a total gas; and Harpo, in a wordless, buffoonish role, who has the privilege to show off his unassuming sleight of hand with musical instruments and threads through an awesome scrim-scaling caper in the climatic opera of IL TROVATORE (during which Ruman also does a Sisyphean job as the ponderous antagonist, huffing and puffing in vain), emerges as the real deal as Yours Truly sees it.
A threadbare romance between soprano Rosa (Carlisle) and Ricardo (Jones), an unknown tenor, has little to savor apart from their sonic contribution, but the overall auditory impression is muted and inarticulate, hurt for an overhaul from the able hands of film restorers. That said, still a fairly impressive vintage comedy from the top-drawer assembly line of the escapism mill.
referential entries: Ernst Lubitsch’s ONE HOUR WITH YOU (1932, 7.1/10); Arthur Lubin’s HOLD THAT GHOST (1941, 7.1/10); Sam Wood’s THE DEVIL AND MISS JONES (1941, 7.2/10).