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A Night in Casablanca (1946)
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10 May 1946 (USA)
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The Marx Brothers spend... more
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The Marx Brothers are employed at a hotel in postwar Casablanca, where a ring of Nazis is trying to recover a cache of stolen treasure. full summary | add synopsis
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Cinema Retro Exclusive Interview With Bill Marx, Son Of Harpo Marx
(From CinemaRetro. 19 November 2009, 4:34 PM, PST)
(From CinemaRetro. 19 November 2009, 4:34 PM, PST)
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Fitting final flourish to the Marx Brothers act
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Cast
(Complete credited cast) | Groucho Marx | ... | Ronald Kornblow |
 | Harpo Marx | ... | Rusty |
 | Chico Marx | ... | Corbaccio |
 | Charles Drake | ... | Lt. Pierre Delmar |
| Lois Collier | ... | Annette |
| Sig Ruman | ... | Count Pfferman / Heinrich Stubel |
| Lisette Verea | ... | Beatrice Rheiner |
| Lewis L. Russell | ... | Governor Galoux (as Lewis Russell) |
| Dan Seymour | ... | Prefect of Police Capt. Brizzard |
| Frederick Giermann | ... | Kurt |
| Harro Mellor | ... | Emile |
| David Hoffman | ... | Spy |
| Paul Harvey | ... | Mr. Smythe |
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85 min
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Mono (Western Electric Recording)
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Hoping to take charge of their film careers, the Marxes financed this movie themselves, under the heading of Loma Vista Films. They even did a brief pre-filming tour of scenes from the movie, as they had done with A Night at the Opera (1935) and A Day at the Races (1937), hoping to sharpen the script's comedy.
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Continuity: In Heinrich Stubel's bedroom, not too far from the end of the film, a lounge chair is visible by the closet, yet the next shot of the closet - the chair is nowhere to be seen.
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Ronald Kornblow:
[as the new hotel manager, Groucho has asked what happened to a previous manager]
Governor Galoux: Monsieur! We caught him stealing money! We were forced to discharge him!
Ronald Kornblow: I see. You want a manager that doesn't steal money. Good day, gentlemen.
Ronald Kornblow: [tries to leave]
Prefect of Police Capt. Brizzard: [holds Kornblow back] Please Monsieur Kornblow do not take offense. You are making a mountain out of a molehill.
Ronald Kornblow: Well, that's quite a trick. You try that sometime.
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Governor Galoux: Monsieur! We caught him stealing money! We were forced to discharge him!
Ronald Kornblow: I see. You want a manager that doesn't steal money. Good day, gentlemen.
Ronald Kornblow: [tries to leave]
Prefect of Police Capt. Brizzard: [holds Kornblow back] Please Monsieur Kornblow do not take offense. You are making a mountain out of a molehill.
Ronald Kornblow: Well, that's quite a trick. You try that sometime.
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Referenced in "Doctor Who: The Androids of Tara: Part 4 (#16.16)" (1978)
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Moonlight Cocktail
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That the Marxes could make this as their final film together (Groucho was tacked onto "Love Happy" as an afterthought and had no scenes with Chico and Harpo) means they could go out with a flourish. Groucho's jokes were back in form, not-so-sly innuendo and all, and the dross of the MGM years was cut away: the romantic leads had minimal screen time and did NOT sing, and the special effects laden last reel chase scene was cut mercifully short. Although it's unfortunate that the script had the quick-witted Marxes resort to poor stage fighting to overcome the Nazis. I believe it was while hanging from the ladder in that chase scene (in what's too clearly the California desert) that Groucho decided there must be a better way to make a living, and went to what became "You Bet Your Life."
PS: It suddenly struck me that Sig Ruman's voice, without the accent, could have been a perfect double for Marvin the Martian. Anyone know if he could have inspired Mel Blanc?
I got some hearty laughs out of it, so that's what counts in the end.