I hardly ever think about Room Service, I've never liked it and never bothered to tape or buy it. I've never taped Go West either, but probably only because TCM UK must have shown it once a week for the past 10 years I figured I didn't have to. What this has meant however is that I've bumped into it a lot of times by accident, and I must admit it's really beginning to grow on me. It was a weaker effort from the team, but when I'm in the right mood it can still make me laugh like a drain.
It also helps liking Golden Age Westerns, from Gene Autry to John Ford including spoofs such as this. John Carroll's leisurely and romantic moonlit song "Ridin' the Range" for me sums up a lot of what Hollywood must have meant to a lot of people back then and to me now. Groucho has loads of great quips and put-downs, to those who've seen it my particular favourite being the above title, delivered by him round-eyed and laconically.
So by now I think well worth including this one in the Marxes canon of classics, and a very pleasant way of spending yet another 80 minutes with TCM UK on!
It also helps liking Golden Age Westerns, from Gene Autry to John Ford including spoofs such as this. John Carroll's leisurely and romantic moonlit song "Ridin' the Range" for me sums up a lot of what Hollywood must have meant to a lot of people back then and to me now. Groucho has loads of great quips and put-downs, to those who've seen it my particular favourite being the above title, delivered by him round-eyed and laconically.
So by now I think well worth including this one in the Marxes canon of classics, and a very pleasant way of spending yet another 80 minutes with TCM UK on!