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Sunday, December 9, 2018


     Room Service
1938  NR  COMEDY  1h 18min
CAST— Groucho Marx, Chico Marx, Harpo Marx, Lucille Ball, Ann Miller, Frank Albertson, Donald MacBride
MUSIC— Roy Webb  DIRECTOR— William A. Seiter  BASED ON— Room Service (play), by Allen Boretz, John Murray

     Yes, once again the Marx Brothers are up to their usual shenanigans, but this time with less than the usual funny. This time around the boys play stage producers holed up inside of a hotel room that they can’t afford. With the manager pounding on their door they desperately try to raise money for their play, for their room, and for food, all the while training a green small-town playwright to be just as mischievous and dishonest as they are. Unlike A Night at the Opera (1935) and A Day at the Races (1937) this film has uneventful scenes and zero laughs, making this a completely forgettable comedy. For Marx Brothers freaks only.
OUR RATING— *

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