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6.9/10
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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
Gaetano Proclo: We used to have a guy like that back in the army. We called him "Get-Away-From-Me-Claude".
- 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
Zany.
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.
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- ItalianGerry
- Jan 3, 2002
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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
- Sound mix
- Aspect ratio
- 1.85 : 1
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