Origin: U.S. (MGM) 1935Length: 96 minutes
Format: Black & White
Director: Sam Wood
Producer: Irving Thalberg
Screenplay: James Kevin McGuinness, George S. Kaufman
Photography: Merritt B. Gerstad
Music: Nacio Herb Brown, Walter Jurmann, Bronislau Kaper, Herbert Stothart
Cast: Groucho Marx, Chico Marx, Harpo Marx, Kitty Carlisle, Allan Jones, Walter Woolf King, Sig Ruman, Margaret Dumont, Edward Keane, Robert Emmett O'Connor
Links: A Night At The Opera Trailer, A Night At The Opera Wiki
More than the central scenes, like the crowd gathering in the ship cabin, A Night at the Opera remains such a strong and dazzling comedy thanks to its most elementary moments - a single word or gesture performed with an incredible sense of rhythm. There is much to say about the way the transgressive weapons of the three brothers initiate a crisis in the spectacle of an opera. Groucho's overflow of words and distortion of his body, Harpo's unnatural silence and childlike power of destruction, Chico's virtuosity and "foreign ethos" - all serve to disturb an opera based on a loathing of art, greed, and corruption.
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