tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31671374.post8187761843604632795..comments2023-10-30T07:10:34.610-07:00Comments on Underbelly: Groucho & CoBucehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16452321114185736762noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31671374.post-43158532508554039002013-09-24T15:02:35.063-07:002013-09-24T15:02:35.063-07:00No contest. "Passport to Pimlico."No contest. "Passport to Pimlico."Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31671374.post-24037515489722690032013-09-24T12:53:03.679-07:002013-09-24T12:53:03.679-07:00Oh,come on. You can do better than LHM and even L...Oh,come on. You can do better than LHM and even Ladykillers. There's Kind Hearts and Coronets; who could forget his extolling of the "Late Early Perpendicular"? But the most subtly great is Man In The White Suit, with that burbly machine music, spot-on representation of all sides, the honeyed tones of Greenwood, and above all Alec's absolute inhabiting of the obsessed scientist. And that ending ...Wayne Kernochanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12662540362928885168noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31671374.post-19834030977673147402013-09-24T10:26:19.631-07:002013-09-24T10:26:19.631-07:00As a nearly lifelong Marx Brothers fan, I find A N...As a nearly lifelong Marx Brothers fan, I find A Night at the Opera to be harder to watch as time goes by, because all the crap that Thalberg put in to appeal to the housewives of America ca. 1935 is barely tolerable to my sensibility. <br /><br />The parts that are good are very, very good (e.g. the opening scene, the contract routine - you can't fool me, there ain't no Sanity Clause! - and the stateroom scene), but IMHO you might as well just fast-forward through the rest of the movie.<br /><br />And even those parts...Thalberg didn't know what to do with Harpo, and was on his way to making Groucho and Chico one-dimensional, a task he completed during the making of A Day at the Races, even if he died while making it.<br /><br />All of the three Paramount movies (Monkey Business, Horsefeathers, and especially Duck Soup) are better than A Night at the Opera.low-tech cyclistnoreply@blogger.com