Love Happy (1949) | |
Director:
David Miller Release Date: October 12, 1949 Genre: comedy Runtime: 85 minutes Color: black and white Casting: Groucho Marx: detective Sam Grunion/narrator Harpo Marx: Harpo Chico Marx: Faustino the large one Ilona Massey: Mrs Egelichi Vera Ellen: Maggie Phillips Marion Hutton: Bunny Dolan Raymond Burr: Alphonse Zoto Melville Cooper: Lefty Throckmorton Paul Valentine: Mike Johson Leon Belasco: Mr Lyons Eric Blore: Mackinaw Bruce Gordon: Hannibal Zoto Marilyn Monroe: a client of Grunion Synopsis:
Harpo, an artist dreamer and nice, is also an inveterate kleptomaniac. Whereas he quietly strips the customers of a grocer, he attends a delivery of sardine boxes. He follows the deliverymen in the reserve of the store and largely benefits from it to be useful himself. In its "harvest", Harpo is unaware of that he took a sardine box where Madame Egelichi dissimulated a diamond collar of a value of one million dollars. Furious, this last lance the police force with the cases of Harpo to recover her property… My note: My opinion: far from being the best from Marx Brothers, this film is nice but is characterized especially by several very slow scenes which, alone, waste film. There are however excellent ideas which could have made it possible to obtain a much better result. Ray incarne, as with his practice at the time, malicious pure and hard which remain imperturbable in front of the daftness of Harpo. |