The greatest commercial success of the Marx brothers, and, along with “Duck Soup”, their most famous work, “A Night at the Opera” was released in 1935 and became a smash hit in American cinemas. It is the first movie the brothers made for MGM, and also the first one they filmed after their fourth brother Zeppo left the team. Groucho plays the role of a lowly theater impresario, Chico a manager of n unknown opera singer, and Harpo a former hair dresser to Groucho's character. Groucho is trying to sign an up and coming opera star (Walter Woolf King) and steal him away from another opera manager (Sig Ruman). At the same time, an anonymous young singer (Alan Jones) is desperately trying to get a contract with an opera company, so he hires his dim witted friend to be his manager. Through a series of mix ups and hilarious shenanigans that only Marx brothers can pull off, the brothers find themselves battling against the evil opera manager and the arrogant opera singer, while trying to help a poor young man and his girlfriends make their first steps on the opera stage. “A Night at the Opera” is considered a comedic masterpiece and one of the greatest American films of all times. A few of the scenes from the movie, especially the famous stateroom scene and the contract scene, are considered the best realized comedic scenes in the history of cinema.
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