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Director:
Writers:
Terrence McNally (play)
Terrence McNally (writer)
Release Date:
26 December 1976 (Denmark) more
Tagline:
...your key to hilarity. more
Plot:
On his deathbed Carmine Vespucci's father tells him to "get Proclo". With "the hit" on, Gaetano tells... more | full synopsis
Awards:
Nominated for 3 Golden Globes. Another 2 nominations more
NewsDesk:
John Ratzenberger Receives Career Achievement Award For Movie And "Cheers" Roles
(From iCelebz. 8 October 2008, 10:21 AM, PDT)
User Comments:
Zany. more (22 total)
Cast
(Cast overview, first billed only)| Jack Weston | ... | Gaetano Proclo | |
| Rita Moreno | ... | Googie Gomez | |
| Jerry Stiller | ... | Carmine Vespucci | |
| Kaye Ballard | ... | Vivian Proclo | |
| F. Murray Abraham | ... | Chris | |
| Paul B. Price | ... | Claude Perkins | |
| Treat Williams | ... | Michael Brick | |
| John Everson | ... | Tiger | |
| Christopher J. Brown | ... | Duff | |
| Dave King | ... | Abe Lefkowitz | |
| Bessie Love | ... | Maurine | |
| Tony De Santis | ... | Balloon Man | |
| Ben Aris | ... | Patron With Bicycle | |
| Peter Butterworth | ... | Patron In Chaps | |
| Ronnie Brody | ... | Small Patron |
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Runtime:
91 min
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Color:
Color (Technicolor)
Aspect Ratio:
1.85 : 1 more
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Certification:
Argentina:16 | Australia:M | Sweden:11 | Finland:K-16 | USA:R
Filming Locations:
Twickenham Film Studios, St Margarets, Twickenham, Middlesex, England, UK
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Fun Stuff
Trivia:
F. Murray Abraham, Rita Moreno, Jerry Stiller, Jack Weston and Paul B. Price play the roles they created in the original Broadway production. more
Goofs:
Continuity: When Carmine first calls Claude from backstage, Claude's wig is pulled forward. When he says, "Fashionable," the wig is far back on his head in the close-up. When it returns to the long shot, the wig is forward again. more
Quotes:
Googie Gomez:
[In a thick accent] One of dees days ju is going to see de name of Googie Gomez up in lights and you gonna ask to juself,
[gasps]
Googie Gomez:
'Gwas dat her?' An den ju gonna answer to juself,
[gasps]
Googie Gomez:
'Jes, dat gwas her!' Well, let me tell you something, Mister: I gwas ALWAYS her, jus dat nobody knows it!"
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Movie Connections:
Referenced in The Unknown Peter Sellers (2000) (TV) more
Soundtrack:
The Three Caballeros more
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THE RITZ is a zany and broadly played little farce directed by Richard Lester. It is an adaptation of a Broadway play by Terrence McNally, later acclaimed for MASTER CLASS and the hit musical THE FULL MONTY. It is set in a New York club-bath for gays. Dying gang leader George Coulouris tells his son Jerry Stiller and daughter Kaye Ballard that he wants Ballard's husband, Jack Weston, a Cleveland sanitation company owner, to be killed. That's the only plot there is. Weston tells a cabbie to take him to a place where no one will suspect he is hiding. Enter "The Ritz," a seedily elegant gay paradise with its clients that include self-mocking F.Murray Abraham, and chubby-chaser Paul B. Price. The cast is uniformly amusing, especially Rita Moreno as Google Gomez, an untalented Latin singer whom Weston mistakes for a drag queen. She frequently steals the show from everyone. Moreno got a Tony Award for her Broadway portrayal of that role. Also good is the improbably squeaky-voiced detective played by Treat Williams. Some of the resulting mayhem is very funny indeed; some stretches are more ho-hum. Nevertheless, it is a generally successful piece of entertainment regardless of one's sexual orientation.