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The movies' craziest comedy team in two of their most successful pictures.
"A Night at the Opera"
Possibly the Marx Brothers' most famous film, the plot has something to do with Otis B. Driftwood's plans to launch a Mrs Claypool as a patron of Grand Opera.
4.25 "The Big Store"
Groucho, Chico and Harpo turn their talents to sleuthing as three private eyes hired to protect a department store. But once again they leave chaos in their wake.
(Holiday Films: pages 17-18)
Contributors
Director (A Night at the Opera):
Sam
Wood
Otis B. Driftwood:
Groucho
Marx
Fiorello:
Chico
Marx
Tomasso:
Harpo
Marx
Rosa:
Kitty
Carlisle
Ricardo:
Allan
Jones
Lassparri:
Walter
King
Gottlieb:
Siegfried
Ruman
Mrs Claypool:
Margaret
Dumont
Captain:
Edward
Keane
Henderson:
Robert Emmett
O'Connor
Director (The Big Store):
Charles
Riesner
Wolf J. Flywheel:
Groucho
Marx
Ravelli:
Chico
Marx
Wacky:
Harpo
Marx
Tommy Rogers:
Tony
Martin
Joan Sutton:
Virginia
Grey
Martha Phelps:
Margaret
Dumont
Mr Grover:
Douglass
Dumbrille
Fred Sutton:
William
Tannen
Peggy Arden:
Marion
Martin
Kitty:
Virginia
O'Brien
Giuseppe:
Henry
Armetta
Maria:
Anna
Demetrio
Royal Institution Lectures by Professor Eric Laithwaite.
The mysteries of a "Gyroscope" in "Gimbal rings" were known to Lewis Carroll, who used the words "gyre and gimble" in a Nonsense rhyme about the mythical monster. We shall re-examine gyroscopes from the point of view that their behaviour can be compared very closely to that of electromagnetic devices.
Contributors
Lecturer:
Professor Eric
Laithwaite
Producer:
Brian
Johnson
Cliff Michelmore reports on the International Boat Show at Earls Court with expert comment on sail and power from Robin Knox-Johnston and John Reed
Try a new dinghy for £300. Meet the yachtsman of the year. See the Windermere powerboat Grand Prix from the air. Shop around for the best buy in family cruisers. A hundred new boats surround the Cornish fishing village built in the pool at Earls Court. Come on board and escape to the sea in 1975.
Contributors
Presenter:
Cliff
Michelmore
Expert:
Robin
Knox-Johnston
Expert:
John
Reed
Director:
Peter
Cleaver
Producer:
Tony
Salmon
Editor:
Brian
Robins
with Michael Charlton. A topical interview with a well-known personality follows the News Summary
Weather
Contributors
Presenter:
Michael
Charlton
Introduced by Richard Baker.
The traditional concert of music by the Strauss family, which took place this morning in the Main Hall of the Musikverein, with the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra led and conducted by Willi Boskovsky with members of the Vienna Opera Ballets.
Contributors
Presenter:
Richard
Baker
Musicians:
Vienna Philharmonic
Orchestra
Dancers:
Vienna Opera
Ballets
Conductor:
Willi
Boskovsky
Choreographer:
Gerlinde
Dill
Choreographer:
Gerhard
Senft
Director:
Herman
Lanske
with Fenella Fielding and Denholm Elliott
The cat has been branded and cosseted, worshipped and cursed across the years. As an Egyptian Deity, medieval demon and modern sybarite she has constantly intrigued and mystified her admirers. She's inspired poetry and prose ranging from the sublime to the ridiculous and almost as varied as the cat herself ... Ravel, Rossini and Tchaikovsky have composed memorable cat-music, and artists from Leonardo da Vinci to Ronald Searle have sought to capture her magic. But the cat remains elusive, and will doubtless continue to defy definition for the next 2,000 years.
(Fenella Fielding is in "Absurd Person Singular" at the Vaudeville Theatre, London)
Contributors
Presenter:
Denholm
Elliott
Presenter:
Fenella
Fielding
Film Editor:
Kate
Rivers
Writer/Producer:
Margaret
McCall
Starring Trevor Howard, Vanessa Redgrave, John Gielgud, Harry Andrews, Jill Bennett and David Hemmings
On 25 October 1854 the Light Brigade, commanded by Lord Cardigan, rode into the 'valley of death' against the full might of the Russian cannon.
Holiday Films: pages 17 and 18
Contributors
Screenplay:
Charles
Wood
Director:
Tony
Richardson
Lord Cardigan:
Trevor
Howard
Clarissa Codrington:
Vanessa
Redgrave
Lord Raglan:
John
Gielgud
Lord Lucan:
Harry
Andrews
Mrs Duberly:
Jill
Bennett
Captain Nolan:
David
Hemmings
Paymaster Duberly:
Peter
Bowles
Captain Morris:
Mark
Burns
Sir George Brown:
Howard Marion
Crawford
Alrey:
Mark
Dignam
Mogg:
Alan
Dobie
Squire:
Willoughby
Goddard
William Howard Russell:
T.P.
McKenna
Featherstonehaugh:
Corin
Redgrave
Gabriel Woolf reads "Hyssop" by Walter de la Mare
Contributors
Poet:
Walter De La
Mare
Reader:
Gabriel
Woolf