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The Marx Brothers Collection (A Night at The Opera/A Day at The Races/A Night in Casablanca/Room Service/At the Circus/Go West/The Big Store)
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Genre | Comedy |
Format | Multiple Formats, Box set, Black & White, NTSC |
Contributor | Marx Brothers |
Language | English |
Runtime | 10 hours and 13 minutes |
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Marx Brothers Collection (DVD) (5-Pack)
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When it comes to long-awaited treats like The Marx Brothers Collection, you can never get too much of a good thing. These seven comedies can't compare to the sheer lunacy of the five classics (The Cocoanuts, Animal Crackers, Monkey Business, Horse Feathers, and Duck Soup) that the Marx Bros. made for Paramount between 1929 and 1933 (available in The Marx Brothers Silver Screen Collection), but when uber-producer Irving Thalberg signed Groucho, Harpo, and Chico to an MGM contract in 1935 (by which time sibling costar Zeppo had become the team's off-screen manager), he knew just how to cure their box-office blues. As a result, A Night at the Opera and A Day at the Races were critical and commercial hits, lavishly produced according to the "Tiffany" studio's golden-age formula of glamorous set pieces and musical numbers combined with sensible plots that smoothly integrated snappy, well-written Marxian antics. Opera is the jewel of this set, with timeless scenes (the Stateroom, the Groucho-Chico contract negotiation, etc.) that rank among the greatest bits of silver-screen comedy... not to mention Groucho's flirtatious insults at Margaret Dumont's upper-crust expense.
A Day at the Races deserves near-equal acclaim ("Get-a your tootsie-fruitsie ice cream!"), but Thalberg's death in 1937 dealt a devastating blow, and the Marxes suffered from studio indifference, resulting in a succession of comedies that are timelessly enjoyable even as they fall prey to diminishing returns. By the time they made Go West and The Big Store, the Marxes were out of their element, and a few of the musical interludes indulge racial stereotypes that were common in the studio era. Despite this, these movies remain fresh and frantic, and Warner Bros. (holder of the RKO and MGM libraries) has done a marvelous job of packaging The Marx Brothers Collection to nostalgically approximate the filmgoing experience of the 1930s and '40s, with vintage shorts (Our Gang, Robert Benchley comedies, MGM cartoons, etc.) from the time of each feature's original release. Archival materials are slim but worthwhile (especially Groucho's 1961 interview with TV talk-show host Hy Gardner), and while Glenn Mitchell's commentary on Races is sparse and superficial, Leonard Maltin brings his usual superfan's enthusiasm and encyclopedic knowledge to bear on a full-length Opera commentary track. The new documentaries are somewhat redundant, but essential viewing for Marx Bros. neophytes. With all seven films presented in pristine condition, this is definitely a Marx Brothers Collection worth having. --Jeff Shannon
Product details
- Aspect Ratio : 1.33:1
- Is Discontinued By Manufacturer : No
- MPAA rating : NR (Not Rated)
- Product Dimensions : 7.75 x 5.5 x 3 inches; 15.2 ounces
- Item model number : 4409550984
- Media Format : Multiple Formats, Box set, Black & White, NTSC
- Run time : 10 hours and 13 minutes
- Release date : May 4, 2004
- Subtitles: : English, Spanish, French
- Language : Unqualified, English (Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono)
- Studio : Warner Home Video
- ASIN : B0001HAIP4
- Number of discs : 5
- Best Sellers Rank: #21,882 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)
- #2,541 in Comedy (Movies & TV)
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A Night at the Opera is one hour and thirty – one minutes and was released in theaters on November 15, 1935. Basically the Marx Brothers get caught up trying to put to lovers in the opera of Il trovatore.
This movie has some firsts to it. It was the very first movie the brothers did after Zeppo left the group. Also Groucho was thinking of leaving the group but Chico talked him out of it. It was the first movie the brothers did for Warner Brothers after they were let go by Paramount Pictures and finally this movie would be the first of a long line of movie story plots. In their first five pictures the Marx Brothers were just zany and would insult the good and the bad. Starting with A Night at the Opera till their final movie Love Happy the Marx Brothers would only insult the bad people and come to the rescue of the innocent. Lastly this is the first movie to feature the first of many fake Zeppos; at least that what film historians call them.
I am not got into the plot of the movie because I am sure that a few other reviewers gave away the whole story. The Marx Brothers as a trio, would be their finest film and the only to come close to (performing as a trio) is A Day at the Races. After A Day at the Races the quality of the Marx Brothers goes downhill big time. A Night at the Opera is known for two main scenes; the stateroom and contract scenes. One other footnote the Marx Brothers went on tour acting out part of the scenes to see what was and was not funny. A Night at the Opera gets an AAAAA+++++.
DVD EXTRAS
Play Movie
Scene Selections
Special Features
I. Commentary by Leonard Martin
II. Remarks On Marx (33 minutes)
III. Vintage Shorts
a. How to Sleep (10 minutes)
b. Sunday Night at the Trocadero
IV. Theatrical Trailer
Languages
I. Spoken Languages
a. English
II. Subtitles
a. English
b. Français
c. Español
d. Off
A Day at the Races is one hour and forty – nine minutes and was released in theatres on June 11, 1937. Basically Judy Standish is the owner of Standish Sanitarium for which the sanitarium is in dept. Her friend Tony brings is Dr. Hugo Z. Hackenbush because Emily Upjohn trusts only him. Mrs. Upjohn does not know that Dr. Hackenbush is actually a veterinarian. When Dr. Hackenbush is exposed as a fraud by Tony and Stuffy he is tricked into helping to save Standish Sanitarium. In order to save the sanitarium Judy friend Gil enters his horse in a steeplechase race. Due to the death of Irving Thalberg during the making of the film, the brothers went to doing A Films to doing B Films because the head of MGM, Louis B. Mayer did not think highly of the Marx Brothers. A Day at the Races has the distinction of being the longest Marx Brothers movie and the only one to be nominated for an Academy Award. The film was nominated for Best Dance Direction, but lost to A Damsel in Distress. A Day at the Races gets an AAAA++++.
DVD EXTRAS
Play Movie
Scene Selections
Special Features
I. Commentary by Glenn Mitchell
II. On Your Marx, Get Set, Go! (27 minutes)
III. A Night At The Movies (9 minutes)
IV. Vintage Cartoons
a. Old Smokey (7 minutes)
b. Mam’s New Hat (8 minutes)
c. Gallopin’ Gals (7 minutes)
V. Audio Vault
a. A Message from the Man in the Moon (2 minutes)
b. Leo Is on the Air Radio Program
VI. Theatrical Trailer (2 minutes)
Languages
I. Spoken Languages
a. English
II. Subtitles
a. English
b. Français
c. Español
d. Off
Room Service is one hour and eighteen minutes and was released in theatres on September 30, 1938. The main story is that Gordon Miller (Groucho) has the entire cast and crew held up in a hotel while he tries to find a backer for the play Hail and Farwell. In the meantime he has racked up a huge hotel bill and tries not to get evicted or thrown in jail along with Chico, Harpo and Leo Davis who is the writer for the play. Granted there are some laughs in this movie but not the kind that were in a Night At the Opera and a Day at the Races. Room Service has a few footnotes to it. Room Service is the only movie not written specifically for the Marx Brothers and the only movie the Marx Brothers made for RKO Studios. This is the only movie where Harpo does not play the harp and Chico does not play the piano. Swing Low, Sweet Chariot is song by all three brothers at the fake death scene and at the end of the movie. Also missing from this from this movie is Margaret Dumont; Groucho’s love interest. Room Service gets a B.
DVD EXTRAS
Play Movie
Scene Selections
Special Features
I. Party Fever (9 minutes)
II. The Daffy Doc (6 minutes)
III. Theatrical Trailer (1 minute)
Languages
I. Spoken Languages
a. English
II. Subtitles
a. English
b. Français
c. Español
d. Off
At The Circus is one hour and twenty – six minutes and was released in theaters on October 20, 1939. The main plot of the movie is the Marx Brothers help out Jeff Wilson, the owner of Wilson Wonder Circus, who has been robbed of ten thousand dollars. The whole movie is very predictable and except for when you get to the last ten minutes are there any laughs. Some of the joke sketches run too long and the musical ‘Swingali’ for which Harpo plays the harp could have been omitted from the movie. It ads nothing to the story and does not move it along. Margaret Dumont, Groucho love interest in the Marx Brothers movies, does not appear until fifty – five minutes into the film. At The Circus gets a C- for little laughs and a weak story.
DVD EXTRAS
Play At The Circus
Scene Selections
Special Features
I. Dog Daze (10 minutes)
II. Jitterbug Follies (8 minutes)
III. Theatrical Trailer (3 minutes)
Languages
I. Spoken Languages
a. English
II. Subtitles
a. English
b. Français
c. Español
d. Off
Go West is one hour and twenty – six minutes and was released in theaters on December 6, 1940. Basically the boys try to recover a deed that was given to them but get stolen by a couple of greedy gangsters. Just like At The Circus the laughs are few and missing from this movie is Groucho’s love interest Margaret Dumont. Some interesting notes is Groucho does not have a solo song in this movie like past movies though he does sing with his brother Chico (a rarity) and John Carroll. Also Groucho plays guitar in this movie, something he has not done since Horse Feathers. There are very few funny scenes in this movie. Finally if you go to the Theatrical Trailer of the Special Features of this DVD, it looks like some scenes were cut. Go West gets a D+ for very few laughs and a weak story.
DVD EXTRAS
Play Go West
Scene Selections
Special Features
I. Vintage Shorts
a. Quicker in a Wink (9 minutes)
b. Cavalcade of San Francisco (8 minutes)
II. The Milky Way (7 minutes)
III. Leo Is on the Air – Go West
IV. Theatrical Trailer (2 minutes)
Languages
I. Spoken Languages
a. English
II. Subtitles
a. English
b. Français
c. Español
d. Off
The Big Store is one hour and twenty – three minutes and released in theaters on June 20, 1941. Basically the main story is the Marx Brothers help Tommy Rogers and his Aunt Martha Phelps from being taken over by Mr. Grover (the store manager) who wants to kill them both and run the store. There are some funny scenes like the bedroom scene and the final chase scene but that is it. The musical numbers are good; there are seven in all. This is the only Marx Brothers film where Harpo is teamed up with Groucho, Harpo and Chico play the piano together and Harpo plays the harp twice in the movie. Also this would be Margaret Dumont (Groucho’s love interest) seventh and final film with the group. The Big Store was billed as the final Marx Brother movie but would go on to make another three more films together: A Night in Casablanca, Love Happy, and The Story of Mankind (not a true Marx Brothers film, but all three appear in it). The Big Store gets a C-.
DVD EXTRAS
Play The Big Store
Scene Selections
Special Features
I. Flicker Memories (7 minutes)
II. Officer Pooch (8 minutes)
III. Where There’s Music (3 minutes)
Languages
I. Spoken Languages
a. English
II. Subtitles
a. English
b. Français
c. Español
d. Off
A Night In Casablanca is one hour and twenty four minutes and was released in theatres on May 10, 1946. This is the twelfth Marx Brothers film. Basically Groucho takes over the Hotel Casablanca were three previous hotel managers have been murdered. Unbeknownst to Groucho there is hidden World War II German treasure hidden in the hotel and Count Pfferman/Heinrich Stubel is trying to sneak it out of the country. That is basically your movie in a nutshell. The laughs are gone in this movie and there are very little musical numbers. Groucho doesn’t even sing in this movie. One little bit of trivia is Sig Ruman who plays Count Pfferman/Heinrich Stubel was also in A Night At The Opera and A Day At The Races. A Night In Casablanca gets a D- for no laughs.
Play A Night In Casablanca
Scene Selections
Special Features
I. Acrobatty Bunny (7 minutes)
II. So You Think You’re A Nervous Wreck (10 minutes)
Languages
I. Spoken Languages
a. English
Subtitles
I. English
II. Français
III. Español
IV. Off
While nearly everyone will agree that the Paramount productions were the Marx' greatest creative triumphs, by the time of the final film (the classic "Duck Soup"), 30's audiences were no longer 'buying' the team's brand of insanity, and the studio dropped the brothers. Zeppo retired, swapping his status as 'straight man' to become an agent, and the future looked very uncertain. But Irving Thalberg, MGM's legendary production head, was a bridge-playing buddy of Chico's, and he felt confident that all the brothers needed were a good, cohesive storyline, a 'hook' to immediately generate audience sympathy for them, and attractive co-stars to provide romance. The Marxes were signed by Hollywood's most prestigious studio, and "A Night at the Opera" proved his theories correct, becoming a BIG hit! While Thalberg's untimely death, in 1936, (as "A Day at the Races" was in production), would end the MGM 'magic' for the brothers, their subsequent films still provided some 'classic' moments; "At the Circus" introduced the immortal Groucho tune, 'Lydia, the Tatooed Lady', and some great one-liners (Groucho to Chico: "I bet your mother spent the first year of your life throwing rocks at the stork..."); "Go West" climaxed with a hilariously destructive train race; and "The Big Store", their final MGM film, recaptured much of the spirit of "Opera" and "Races", with Tony Martin, the best 'Zeppo' substitute since Allan Jones, as the romantic lead.
"Room Service" and "A Night in Casablanca" are both worth watching, for their novelty value, alone; the RKO film gave the brothers their most 'normal' characters, with Groucho a stage producer (young Lucille Ball played his girlfriend), Chico his 'Go-For', and Harpo, a hanger-on, and was the only film where neither Chico or Harpo had a musical interlude; "Casablanca" pitted the brothers (uncomfortably, at times), against 'real' villains, the Nazis (personified by long-time Marx nemesis Sig Ruman).
I could go on, but the films are so much fun that they don't need any more of an endorsement than this: If you are familiar with Groucho, Harpo, and Chico, you'll already be ordering this collection; if you're not, I envy the hours of laughter and discovery you have ahead of you, when you purchase it!
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Da es mehrere Marx Brothers Collections Box Import Sets gibt, sind die Angaben sehr ungenau und die Rezension werden fehlerhaft vermischt.
Diese Rezension ist zunächst für dieses Film Set: http://www.amazon.de/gp/product/B0002GZ9ZS/ref=cm_cr_ryp_prd_ttl_sol_0
Auf der Seite für das Set mit "NTSC" im Titel ist sie verwirrend, das Extras Set: https://www.amazon.de/gp/product/B0000DJYPL/ref=cm_cr_ryp_prd_ttl_sol_0
Die alte Rezension von dort hat schon gar nichts auf der Seite des von mir zuerst rezensierten Sets zu suchen.
Ich habe auf UK Seiten nach dem ASIN-Code gesucht und dadurch sicher gestellt das richtige Set zu bestellen.
Auf Grund der Beschreibung (inzwischen noch mehr reduziert) war unklar welche Filme und ob wenigstens Englische Untertitel enthalten sind, aber Untertitel gibt es in einer Fülle von Sprachen: bis auf "A Night in Casablanca" auch in Deutsch.
Und es sind auch einige andere Sprachfassungen dabei, "A Day at the Races" und "Go West" auch in Deutsch.
Lediglich der Box-Karton war nicht mehr zu gebrauchen, aber die einzelnen DVDs und ihre Hüllen sind wie neu. Bei dem unschlagbar niedrigen Preis fällt das nicht ins Gewicht.
Sonst enthalten: A Night at the opera, Big Store, At the Circus
Da ich inzwischen auch die andere Collection mit mit den Extras gekauft habe, eine Anmerkung dazu: alles wie beschrieben, aber leider gibt es keine Englischen Untertitel.