Night in Casablanca Archie Mayo Digital Life VHS

Night in Casablanca
starring: Groucho Marx, Harpo Marx, Chico Marx, Charles Drake, Lois Collier
directed by: Archie Mayo

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Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: VHS Tape
EAN: 9780790736594
Format: Black & White, NTSC
ISBN: 0790736594
Label: Warner Home Video
Manufacturer: Warner Home Video
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Warner Home Video
Release Date: July 28, 1998
Running Time: 85 minutes
Sales Rank: 13997
Studio: Warner Home Video
Theatrical Release Date: May 10, 1946

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Marx Brothers comedy has them ferret out Nazi spies in a Casablanca hotel.

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A Night in Casablanca may not qualify as a Marx Brothers classic, but it's certainly the best of their latter-day comedies. 'This picture is funnier than all but a handful of their earlier ones,' wrote the usually cantankerous Pauline Kael, and she's right. The Big Store would have been the final Marx movie, but that disappointment, and an attractive new deal with United Artists, prompted the Marx trio to bring freshly anarchic energy to this post-war spoof of wartime intrigue, prompting Warner Bros. (producers of Casablanca) to threaten legal action over the title, to which Groucho responded, 'I am sure that the average movie fan could learn in time to distinguish between Ingrid Bergman and Harpo.' As it happens, Night bears only passing resemblance to the Bergman/Bogart classic, with Groucho playing the new manager of a hotel in Casablanca, where several previous managers have been murdered while a scheming villain (Marx regular Sig Rumann) plots to steal the hotel's cache of Nazi treasure. Chico and Harpo are up to their usual antics (including piano and harp interludes, respectively), and they all give Rumann the runaround in the film's funniest and most perfectly choreographed scene. The brothers made their final film together with Love Happy three years later, but as any fan will tell you, A Night in Casablanca was the last Marx comedy that mattered. --Jeff Shannon

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- Classic Comedy!!!
I thought this was a pretty funny Marx Brothers movie! My favorite is Groucho, he's always hilarious! When two managers from a hotel have been killed, Kornblow becomes the new manager. Rusty and Corbaccio become his bodyguards and protect him against hot women and food. A Nazi named Pfefferman, also known as Heinrich Stubel has been killing the other managers so he can become manager and take all the treasure that's hidden in the hotel. The Marx Brothers use their unorthodox ways to stop him. If you love classic comedy and the Marx Brothers, you'll love A NIGHT IN CASABLANCA!!!

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- Late Marx Bros - still funny
This was made in 1946 and its the penultimate Marx brothers film as far as I know. Whilst it doesn't stand up to comparison to some of their earlier classics, its still funny and in places a clever film.

Groucho, who was 56 when this was made, plays Ronald Kornblow a replacement manager for the recently murdered previous manager. Actually the plot really doesn't matter very much. What you need to know is that Groucho gets to deliver some classic one-liners:

Ronald Kornblow: You know, I think you're the most beautiful woman in the whole world.
Beatrice Rheiner: [eagerly] Do you really?
Ronald Kornblow: No, but I don't mind lying if it'll get me somewheres.

and perhaps my favourite

Mr. Smythe: Sir, this lady is my wife. You should be ashamed.
Ronald Kornblow: If this lady is your wife, YOU should be ashamed.

Harpo and Chico get to ... Read More

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- Not Quite Great but Quite Good Late Marx Bros.
Too many of the lines are anything but gems (Chico: That's not-a my wife. That's-a my camel). The movie is stylistically dominated by its framing melodrama. Harpo and Chico are starting to look old. The climax is almost completely devoid of anarchic fun. Nazis trying to kill Groucho are a questionable substitute for Margaret Dumont. Yet despite these drawbacks, "A Night in Casablanca" is clearly the brothers' strongest outing since "A Day at the Races" and is some ways even better: Groucho doesn't snivel, the romantic leads can act but don't sing, the musical interludes are brief and entertaining (Chico has two in a row, the second using some much-needed new business) and there is a much higher percentage of comedy vs romantic plot.

And much of the comedy is quite good. Some of Groucho's banter with would-be femme fatal Beatrice Rheiner (played handsomely by Lisette Verea in her only American--and only ... Read More

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- A Night in Casablanca 1946
Groucho (1890-1977) , Chico 1887-1961 , Harpo 1888-1964...Uh-oh ! it's the Nazi vs. nutsies when legendary Marx Brothers foils Axis criminals during A NIGHT IN CASABLANCA . As the manager of the hotel swirling in intrigue , Grochy is up to his fake mustache in joyful if unfilled Lechery. Chico -heywatzamatter-becomes Groucho's bodyguard by self-decree. Harpo , pantomime's clown prince, says more whistle and gestures tahn most comics say in pages of dialogue . When this 1946 film began production Warner Bros. threatned suite saying the title infriged upon the studio's famed CASABLANCA . Groucho fired back: *You probably have the rights to use the name WARNER, but what about Brothers ! Professionaly , we were before you were* .Hight Quality Transfer . Recommended

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