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Evading a mob contract on his life, a heterosexual man winds up hiding out at a homosexual bathhouse.Evading a mob contract on his life, a heterosexual man winds up hiding out at a homosexual bathhouse.Evading a mob contract on his life, a heterosexual man winds up hiding out at a homosexual bathhouse.
- Nominated for 1 BAFTA Award
- 5 nominations total
Hal Galili
- Patron with Cigar
- (as Hal Gallili)
Storyline
Did you know
- Trivia"The Ritz" opened on Broadway on January 20, 1975 at the Longacre Theatre and closed after 398 performances and ten previews.F. Murray Abraham, Rita Moreno, Jerry Stiller, Jack Weston, Paul B. Price, Tony De Santis, Christopher J. Brown, and John Everson play the roles they created in the original Broadway production. Treat Williams replaced Stephen Collins as Brick, and Dave King replaced George Dzundza as Abe Lefkowitz.
- GoofsThe movie is set in New York (and briefly, Cleveland). Gaetano and Vivian Proclo are clearly Italian-American, yet their daughters speak with distinctly British accents. The movie was filmed in England.
- Quotes
Chris: Margaret Dumont! I thought you were dead!
Muscle Bound Patron: There's a reason people like me don't ride the subway. I'm looking right at him.
Chris: Is that supposed to mean me? Screw you, honey. You can die with your secret, piss-elegant fairy! If there's anything I can't stand, it's a queen without a sense of humor.
- Alternate versionsCBS edited 5 minutes from this film for its 1982 network television premiere.
- ConnectionsFeatured in Homo Promo (1991)
- SoundtracksThe Three Caballeros
(uncredited)
Music by Manuel Esperón
English lyrics by Ray Gilbert
Performed by The Andrews Sisters
Featured review
The stars and nearly the entire Broadway cast of The Ritz managed to make it to
the film version as soon as the original run on Broadway had finished. Although he had written before for Broadway, The Ritz was the first solid commercial
success for playwright Terrence McNally. It ran for 400 performances in its
initial run and has been revived twice since.
The threadbare plot involves Jerry Stiller who has a grudge against his brother-in-law Jack Weston, one of those Italian Mafia things. It's so personal that Stiller is going to do it himself.
Poor Weston is given a tip to check into a place called The Ritz as a place that no one would suspect. he'd be it. And why not because unless was leading another and gay life why would he go to The Ritz?
It's all a culture shock to Weston who is just looking for a discreet hideout and to those who follow which include a detective with a high pitched squeak of a voice in Treat Williams, Stiller, and Weston's wife Kaye Balllard.
This play is a chance to look at some outrageous stereotypes and one of them is Rita Moreno who entertains at the bathhouse and is the worst singer on record. But she is hopeful for that break and after all this is where Bette Middler started. Her full blown performance got her a Tony Award on Broadway to go with the Oscar she got for West Side Story, two completely different Latina roles. Moreno gets it in her head that Weston is a Broadway producer traveling incognito and she's willing to do what a girl's got to do to make it on the Great White Way.
Stiller, Ballard, and Weston give Italian stereotyping a good going over. Since The Ritz is a place where aliases are used more often than not, Weston finds it amusing to use Stiller's name when registering. Half the comedy of the work comes from that.
Over 40 years after it was released The Ritz is still a laugh riot.
The threadbare plot involves Jerry Stiller who has a grudge against his brother-in-law Jack Weston, one of those Italian Mafia things. It's so personal that Stiller is going to do it himself.
Poor Weston is given a tip to check into a place called The Ritz as a place that no one would suspect. he'd be it. And why not because unless was leading another and gay life why would he go to The Ritz?
It's all a culture shock to Weston who is just looking for a discreet hideout and to those who follow which include a detective with a high pitched squeak of a voice in Treat Williams, Stiller, and Weston's wife Kaye Balllard.
This play is a chance to look at some outrageous stereotypes and one of them is Rita Moreno who entertains at the bathhouse and is the worst singer on record. But she is hopeful for that break and after all this is where Bette Middler started. Her full blown performance got her a Tony Award on Broadway to go with the Oscar she got for West Side Story, two completely different Latina roles. Moreno gets it in her head that Weston is a Broadway producer traveling incognito and she's willing to do what a girl's got to do to make it on the Great White Way.
Stiller, Ballard, and Weston give Italian stereotyping a good going over. Since The Ritz is a place where aliases are used more often than not, Weston finds it amusing to use Stiller's name when registering. Half the comedy of the work comes from that.
Over 40 years after it was released The Ritz is still a laugh riot.
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- Also known as
- Der Mörder lauert in der Sauna
- Filming locations
- Twickenham Film Studios, St Margarets, Twickenham, Middlesex, England, UK(filmed at, as Twickenham Studios, London, England)
- Production company
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- Runtime1 hour 31 minutes
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- Aspect ratio
- 1.85 : 1
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