Charles Drake, Chico Marx, Dan Seymour

A Night in Casablanca may not qualify as a Marx Brothers classic, but it's certainly the best of their latter-day comedies. "This picture is funnier than all but a handful of their earlier ones...( read more  read more... )," wrote the usually cantankerous Pauline Kael, and she's right. The Big Store would have been the final Marx movie, but that disappointment, and an attractive new deal with United Artists, prompted the Marx trio to bring freshly anarchic energy to this post-war spoof of wartime intrigue, prompting Warner Bros. (producers of Casablanca) to threaten legal action over the title, to which Groucho responded, "I am sure that the average movie fan could learn in time to distinguish between Ingrid Bergman and Harpo." As it happens, Night bears only passing resemblance to the Bergman/Bogart classic, with Groucho playing the new manager of a hotel in Casablanca, where several previous managers have been murdered while a scheming villain (Marx regular Sig Rumann) plots to steal the hotel's cache of Nazi treasure. Chico and Harpo are up to their usual antics (including piano and harp interludes, respectively), and they all give Rumann the runaround in the film's funniest and most perfectly choreographed scene. The brothers made their final film together with Love Happy three years later, but as any fan will tell you, A Night in Casablanca was the last Marx comedy that mattered. --Jeff Shannon

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Unrated, 85 min.

Directed by: Archie Mayo

Release Date: May 10, 1946

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DVD Release Date: May 4, 2004

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  • June 8, 2009
    Now I love the Marx Brothers but this feels a little forced. This isn't horrible, not by a long shot, but it's no Duck Soup either. Sort of a conglomerate rehash of bits we've seen before.
  • June 14, 2008
    --Call me Montgomery.
    --Is that your name?
    --No. I'm just breaking it in for a friend.
  • October 26, 2009
    An exceptionally funny story also set in the famous Casablanca. Less drama, more Marx Brother mayhem!
  • July 20, 2009
    Very underrated Marx Brothers comedy, It's one of their best films with many unforgettable gags and one liners. Harpo is at his best. Laugh out loud funny. Just wonderful.
  • April 20, 2009
    Seen It
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  • April 8, 2009
    typical zany Marx fare
  • December 4, 2008
    This is a very funny movie

    A Night in Casablanca may not qualify as a Marx Brothers classic, but it's certainly the best of their latter-day comedies. "This picture is funnier than all but a handful of their earlier ones...( read more read more... )," wrote the usually cantanker...( read more)ous Pauline Kael, and she's right. The Big Store would have been the final Marx movie, but that disappointment, and an attractive new deal with United Artists, prompted the Marx trio to bring freshly anarchic energy to this post-war spoof of wartime intrigue, prompting Warner Bros. (producers of Casablanca) to threaten legal action over the title, to which Groucho responded, "I am sure that the average movie fan could learn in time to distinguish between Ingrid Bergman and Harpo." As it happens, Night bears only passing resemblance to the Bergman/Bogart classic, with Groucho playing the new manager of a hotel in Casablanca, where several previous managers have been murdered while a scheming villain (Marx regular Sig Rumann) plots to steal the hotel's cache of Nazi treasure. Chico and Harpo are up to their usual antics (including piano and harp interludes, respectively), and they all give Rumann the runaround in the film's funniest and most perfectly choreographed scene. The brothers made their final film together with Love Happy three years later, but as any fan will tell you, A Night in Casablanca was the last Marx comedy that mattered. --Jeff Shannon
  • June 8, 2008
    If you like the original Casablanca, you will enjoy this movie!

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  • alesaenz1
    June 8, 2008
    It's impossible that you won't enjoy this movie if you're a fan of the masterpiece of the original Casablanca. It's a great comedy and I really like the rythm of this movie, you never get bored.

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  • The line, "Play it again, Sam," never actually appears in the movie Casablanca. It does, however, appear in which Marx Brothers movie?  Answer »
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