Fresh
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.
Variety Staff, Variety
A Night at the Opera
Don't miss it! The funniest picture ever made!
1935 · 1h 31m · PASSED
Comedy, Music
Directed by
Sam Wood
Overview
The Marx Brothers take on high society and the opera world to bring two lovers together. A sly business manager and two wacky friends of two opera singers help them achieve success while humiliating their stuffy and snobbish enemies.
Director and cast
- Sam Wood Director
- Groucho Marx as Otis B. Driftwood
- Chico Marx as Fiorello
- Harpo Marx as Tomasso
- Kitty Carlisle as Rosa
- Allan Jones as Ricardo
- Sig Ruman as Gottlieb (as Siegfried Rumann)
- Margaret Dumont as Mrs. Claypool
- Edward Keane as Captain
- Robert Emmett O'Connor as Henderson (as Robert Emmet O'Connor)
- Walter Woolf King as Lassparri (as Walter King)
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
97%
Tomatometer
Rotten
Never was a director more aptly named than Sam Wood: his movies are redwood forests of unrelieved monotony.
Dave Kehr, Chicago Reader
Fresh
The loudest and funniest screen comedy of the Winter season.
Andre Sennwald, New York Times
Fresh
The Brothers get to perform some of their most irresistible routines.
Time Out
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