Nope just watched the movie..a night in Casablanca..a lot of the sticks are from the othermarx brothers movies and the whole plane thing is not Marx brothers. Best moves were duck soup, Animal crackers,coconuts (also hotel theme) and horsefeathers. This movie looks like they needed money at the end of their career ala chicos debts. But Groucho's dialogue still funny in parts

The Nazi guy was Sig Rumann, one of their greatest "foils", in a some of their best films. A great actor in a multiple profusion of roles. He was a kind of German Edgar Kennedy (slow burn, humorous angst). I think the clothes packing scenes in this movie
is one of their best routines !

I'll have to see this again. My memory is that it was very minor for the Marx Brothers. However, it was the first of theirs I ever saw. It was years later before I had the privilege of seeing their earlier films.
I'm the kind of guy, when I move - watch my smoke. But I'm gonna need some good clothes though.

This is my best Marx Bro. film. Second best is Go West. Third is Monkey Business

this movie is right up there with my favorite Marx bros. films. The very long and well played out scene of them messing with the nazi guy is great and reminds of A night at the opera when they are moving the beds from room to room.
WHERE!? I DON'T LIKE LIZARDS!- Charlie Kelly.

yeah, i really liked some scenes in this movie. like when theyre making the nazi think he's losing his mind XD<3 they throw his stuff out and hide in his closet and move things aroundi laugh the entire time during that scene!

morphindel-1, I had pretty much the exact same reaction to this film that you did. It's just dull and not funny at all. And I love just about all of the Marx Brothers' other movies.
Then again, it did prompt a hilarious exchange of letters between Groucho and Warner Brothers

Looks like i'm in the minority then. I thought this was an awful Marx Brothers movie. Every scene felt forced and Groucho wasn't being witty, just sarcastic. A lot of the comedy falls really flat apart from a few scenes with Harpo and Chico and the story is just really boring.
Still, gotta love the musical sections with Chico and Harpo though. As always
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This is my favourite Marx film; the dialogue might not be as sharp as in some other ones, but then it doesn't have those really long song numbers that I found quite old-fashioned.

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A Night in Casablanca
is actually my favorite Marx Brothers movie. Unlike the other 'classics', ANIC is the most evenly funny throughout. Where all of the others have classic bits, they also have long sections that just drag, making you wait for the good stuff.
ANIC, OTOH, is just plain funny throughout without any waiting for the funny parts. Even the musical interludes hold your attention, probably because they're soley the province of the brothers without interference from any lame singers.
ANIC really doesn't get the respect it deserves. It should be right up there with
A Day at the Races
and
A Night at the Opera
as one of the Marx' best efforts. It's a shame it gets overlooked as something less than their other, so-called 'classics'. The early Paramount movies are really nothing more than their vaudeville act being filmed. The later Marx' movies (particularly ANIC) are 'real' movies.
Personally, I don't think any of the Paramount movies are nearly as good as a selected few of the later MGM efforts, specifically those made while Irving Thalberg was still alive and this one.

i think room service is the best of the post-day at the races marx brothers films that are considered to be not so hot. i think it's all enjoyable not just the great last 20 minutes. this one was decent. harpo parts and groucho trying to get the girl were the best bits.

why always only the last 20 minutes?
Because the last twenty minutes are a hectic, mad, frenzied dash that seems to reflect the Marxes' humor better than the stuff at the beginning.
"You're just wasting your breath, and that's no great loss, either."

why always only the last 20 minutes? The rest is equally good!
and when I watched Casablanca, I had no expectations at all, but was VERY pleasantly surprised!
Lime: "Computers are my forte!"
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Thats wrong.. it is in NOW WAY harpos real hair.
Harpo was completly bald early in life and if you have seen photographs of him around the time of the movie. he has no hair.
Even Groucho who is alot younger then him was going bald then.
The wig is a bad choice it makes harpo look even older aswell.
You can also see he was going bald in the Animal crackers film (as now viewable on UTUBE is an outake scene with harpo and NO WIG and he doesnt have much hair even then)
By the way.
I love this movie. i only recently saw it and being a fan of the marx brothers movies all my life and only just finding a copy of this film, i am in no way dissapointed.
Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog, it's too dark to read. Groucho Marx

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Out of curiosity, what's the source for this? Did he have to grow out his hair for this?

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Really? I thought from some home movies and test reels that have surfaced from earlier films that he had very little hair.

What wig? For this movie, they dyed and curled Harpo's real hair.

It's a nice movie but I absolutely hate Harpo's wig in this movie, it looks so off.

A complete waste of time, exept for the last 20 minutes.
Yeah, but the last twenty minutes are a scream, aren't they?
See, that's the difference between pre-
Day at the Races
and post-
Day at the Races
movies: the earlier ones are hysterical
films
while the later ones are good films with hysterical
moments
.
"And now, I'm going back in the closetwhere men are empty overcoats"