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30 September 1938 (USA)
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Better . . . Battier . . . Funnier Than Ever !
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A penniless theatrical producer must outwit the hotel efficiency expert trying to evict him from his room, while securing a backer for his new play. full summary | add synopsis
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(Complete credited cast) | Groucho Marx | ... | Gordon Miller |
 | Chico Marx | ... | Harry Binelli |
 | Harpo Marx | ... | Faker Englund |
 | Lucille Ball | ... | Christine Marlowe |
 | Ann Miller | ... | Hilda Manny |
 | Frank Albertson | ... | Leo Davis |
| Cliff Dunstan | ... | Joseph Gribble |
| Donald MacBride | ... | Gregory Wagner |
| Philip Loeb | ... | Timothy Hogarth |
| Philip Wood | ... | Simon Jenkins |
| Alexander Asro | ... | Sasha Smirnoff |
| Charles Halton | ... | Dr. Glass |
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This is the first (and last) time the Marx Brothers worked with material not specially created for them.
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Continuity: When Gordon Miller calls to reception pretending to be Dr. Glass, he is holding the phone receiver with his right hand. Seconds later, when he is about to hang up, he is holding it with his left hand.
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Featured in Lucy and Desi: A Home Movie (1993) (TV)
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Though not one of the Marx Brothers' better known films, "Room Service" is well worth seeing nonetheless. Originally a stage play, it has the distinction of being the only Marx Brothers' film that wasn't originally written by or for the Brothers. However, the film adaptation is seamlessly tailored for the Marxes' stock characters: Groucho, the glib con-man; Chico, the deceptively simple Italian caricature; and Harpo, their anarchic collaborator. The film is very well written, with lots of hilarious gags and pratfalls. Especially memorable is the scene in which the brothers put on multiple layers of clothes as they prepare to decamp their hotel room without paying the bill. Even funnier is the scene in which the brothers, not having eaten for days, frenetically polish off a meal they had arranged to be diverted to their room. Watch Harpo as he madly harpoons peas with his fork and devours them one by one, like a ravenous automaton! In an earlier scene, the boys chase a flying turkey around the hotel room, hoping to make a meal of it. Alas, it flies out the window, whereupon Groucho says, "Never mind, we didn't have any cranberry sauce anyway!"
Unfortunately, the film lacks the usual piano and harp numbers by Chico and Harpo. Regrettable too is the absence of Margaret Dumont, Groucho's legendary "straight woman." Even so, the film is great fun--pure escapism!