Room service

This article describes the American film. For Roxette's album, see Room Service (album) , for room service in the hospitality industry, see Room Service (Hotel) , for German TV thriller see Tatort: ​​Roomservice .

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Movie
German title	Room service
Original title	Room service
Country of production	United States
original language	English
Publishing year	1938
length	78 minutes
Rod
Director	William A. Seiter
script	Morrie Ryskind
production	George Abbott Pandro S. Berman
music	Roy Webb
camera	J. Roy Hunt
cut	George Crone
occupation
Groucho Marx : Gordon Miller Chico Marx : Harry Binelli Harpo Marx : Faker Englund Lucille Ball : Christine Ann Miller : Hilda Frank Albertson : Leo Davis Cliff Dunstan : Joseph Gribble Donald MacBride : Gregory Wagner Charles Halton : Dr. Glass Philip Loeb : Timothy Hogarth Philip Wood : Simon Jenkins Alexander Asro : Sasha

Room Service (German alternative title: Die Marx Brothers - Zimmerdienst) was the eighth film with the Marx Brothers Groucho, Chico and Harpo Marx. It was shot and published in 1938.

action

The producer Gordon Miller is desperately looking for a sponsor for his theater company. But when a financier is finally found, production threatens to fail because the hotel manager insists on paying the outstanding room bill.

A fast-paced comedy about a theater company that has been renting a hotel for weeks and is threatened with the greatest of all possible catastrophes: not being able to play due to financial constraints. Therefore, the producer, director and writer are constantly on the hunt for sponsors, while at the same time they have to fight off the demands of their creditors. Ready for any risk, trained in the virtuoso art of deception and supported by the unshakable belief that even the most avaricious economists are convertible, they persistently pursue their goal. The unreasonableness of wanting to do theater in a hopeless situation ultimately releases more criminal energy than any adversary can muster against it.

criticism

The lexicon of international films judged that Room Service was an “atypical Marx Brothers film that was quite entertaining in itself” . However, he “can't quite get rid of the stage template” and “clearly falls away from the other films by the comedians” .

Remarks

Zimmerdienst is an unusual film by the Marx Brothers as it does not contain any musical interludes. It is also the only film they made for RKO, even though they were still under contract with MGM at the time. Another special feature: It is the only film that was not written specifically for them, but based on a play by Allen Boretz and John Murray , which premiered on Broadway in 1937.

Web links

• Room Service in theInternet Movie Database(English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Room Service. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .