Dirección
William C. McGann
Guión
Albert J. Cohen, Robert T. Shannon, Manuel Seff
Fotografía
James Van Trees
Montaje
Jack Killifer
Dirección artística
Esdras Hartley
Warner Bros., 1935. EEUU.
Reparto
William Gargan ... Duke Regan
Patricia Ellis ... Marcia Jaynos
Allen Jenkins ... Gyp Beagle
Dorothy Tree ... Kiki Lorraine
Erik Rhodes ... Leopold Jaynos
Berton Churchill ... Stephen Vincent
Gordon Westcott ... Joe Scurvin
Bodil Rosing ... Mama Jaynos
Arthur Hoyt ... Mr. Hassler
Paul Porcasi ... Henri
William B. Davidson ... Connolly, an Editor
Mary Treen ... Isabelle, Hassler's Secretary
Duke Regan is the hight-pressure, irresponsible promotions/marketing/press agent at the Ritz Hotel. He gets the taste of the home cooking done by the mother of Marcia Jaynos, but thinks it was done by her brother,Leopold, who has delusions of being a great chef and the ability to delude Duke into the same, even to the point of selling him to the Ritz as a famous foreign chef. Sound like a job for Mama.
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[quote]In its unpretentious and minor way, "A Night at the Ritz" restores the vanishing farce to the screen and supplies more honest merriment than some of its more genteel brethren in the Broadway area. It is the daffy tale of a high-pressure publicity man who sells the Ritz a Mozart of the cuisine, only to discover that the fellow cannot even boil eggs competently. Even during those static periods which have a habit of smothering the gayety of farce on the screen, the Mayfair's film manages to be witlessly pleasant. There are engaging performances by Eric Rhodes as the bogus chef, William Gargan as the glib publicity lad, and several excellent minor people. All in all, the comedy works the lode of its central idea for a reasonable sum of laughter.
If the great Leopold were strictly a charlatan, there would be no great point to Duke Regan's campaign of inflating his reputation as the world's greatest maestro of the skillet. But the fact is that Leopold, although he has grave difficulty in holding down his job behind a hamburger stand, really fancies himself as a poet of the kitchen. After a lyric dinner at Leopold's house, Duke Regan takes Leopold at his word and credits him with the authorship of a meal which his mother actually has composed. So he sets out to sell the young man to New York. Secreting Leopold in a lavish suite at the Ritz, he allows it to be whispered that the mysterious youth is the gastronomic minister to kings and emperors. At a crucial moment in the Ritz's fortunes he condescends to barter Leopold's priceless services to the hotel for an insulting matter of a thousand a week. It is when Duke discovers his terrible mistake and attempts to call the whole thing off that Leopold steps forward with his contract and demands the right to live up to his reputation.
Eric Rhodes has been neglected in the films since his appearance as the professional co-respondent in "The Gay Divorcee." As the psychopath with a yearning for culinary immortality, he gives "A Night at the Ritz" its air of polite lunacy and helps to wring laughter out of a featherweight enterprise. Allen Jenkins is in his best dead-pan mood as the taxicab driver who takes Leopold at his word and allows himself to be the guinea pig for the madman's experiments. Then there are Patricia Ellis, Berton Churchill, Dorothy Tree and Paul Porcasi, plus the brash and fast-talking Mr. Gargan.
Andre Sennwald, New York Times, 16-05-1935
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Producción canónica de la Warner en ambientes urbanos. Agradable, sin sorpresas, y con un buen reparto.
Se sigue relativamente bien sin necesidad de subtítulos. La fuente original es el DVD customizado que Pranzis ha subido a Cinematik, el ripeo es de un servidor.
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