Watch: A Night at the Opera 1935 123movies, Full Movie Online – The Marx Brothers take on high society. Two lovers who are both in opera are prevented from being together by the man’s lack of acceptance as an operatic tenor. Pulling several typical Marx Brothers’ stunts, they arrange for the normal tenor to be absent so that the young lover can get his chance..
Plot: 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.
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“Let Joy Be Unconfined”
A Night At the Opera is the first film that three Marx Brothers did at MGM after leaving Paramount. Zeppo, who’s contributions to the team are pretty negligible, decided not to make the trip.Nothing was lost and a lot was gained because Allan Jones assumed a Zeppo like character with a lot more personality and a great singing voice. With the story set at an opera company you would hope that a great voice would be a minimal requirement. In fact we have a bunch of great voices, not only Allan Jones, but Kitty Carlisle, and even egotistical tenor Walter Woolf King.
The plot such as it is concerns the three brothers trying to get talented singer Allan Jones a break at the opera company. They’re operating on many fronts here and that includes Groucho wooing the New York Opera Company’s grande dame, Margaret Dumont. Harpo and Chico in the meantime become the bane of the existence for opera director Sig Ruman and Walter Woolf King.
I’m always amazed that Groucho, the king of one liners and innuendo, is constantly exasperated and occasionally defeated by Chico who baffles him with non sequiters and ignorance. Case in point their ‘negotiation’ over Allan Jones’s contract and the fact that poor Groucho thinks he’s signing star Walter Woolf King. Chico knows better than anyone there’s no such thing as a sanity clause.
Allan Jones gets to sing two famous numbers identified with him, a duet with Kitty Carlisle in Alone and later a typical MGM extravaganza number in Cosi Cosa. Harpo does an Alone obbligato on the harp and Chico dazzles the crowd with his pistol fingered piano rendition of All I Do Is Dream Of You.
I’m not sure how Giuseppe Verdi would have taken the finale of A Night at the Opera in which the opening of Il Trovatore is mangled for the ages. All in the interest of seeing Allan Jones gets both a break and Kitty Carlisle. And they do make beautiful music.
And the Marx Brothers make some really funny comedy in one of their best films.
Wonderful Night At the Opera ***1/2
A truly classic comedy with the Marx Brothers at the height of their comedic best.The film works because the casting was just perfect. Kitty Carlisle and Robert Alda had the perfect voices for the part. Their rendition of Alone was just memorable. They were also the perfect foils for Groucho, Harpo and Chico.
Of course, the great Margaret Dumont was an added bonus to this film and any other Marx film. With that dead pan facial expression, and her vulnerability as a society lady,Dumont etched an unforgettable character in each film that she appeared with the brothers.
The plot of the brothers along with Alda being stowaways on the boat is hilarious.
Sig Ruman is in fine form as the head of the opera company.
The dancing, the singing, the very gaiety of this film will bring out the best in any audience. Truly a memorable classic.
Original Language en
Runtime 1 hr 36 min (96 min), 1 hr 31 min (91 min) (1948 re-release) (USA)
Budget 0
Revenue 0
Status Released
Rated Passed
Genre Comedy, Music, Musical
Director Sam Wood, Edmund Goulding
Writer George S. Kaufman, Morrie Ryskind, James Kevin McGuinness
Actors Groucho Marx, Chico Marx, Harpo Marx
Country United States
Awards 1 win
Production Company N/A
Website N/A
Sound Mix Mono (Western Electric Sound System)
Aspect Ratio 1.37 : 1
Camera N/A
Laboratory N/A
Film Length (10 reels)
Negative Format 35 mm
Cinematographic Process Spherical
Printed Film Format 35 mm