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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
Not great but very funny
A man (Jack Weston} discovers his brother-in-law (Jerry Stiller)is trying to kill him. He gets into a cab and tells the cabdriver to take him where he won't be discovered. He's taken to the Ritz-a gay bathhouse.
This is an adaptation of a successful Broadway play. Most of the cast from the play recreate their parts in the movie including Rita Moreno who won a Tony for the play.
It's well-done with the cast going full force. The play was a slamming door farce that almost never works in movies but here it does. Also the movie is refreshingly non-homophobic. And Moreno and Treat Williams (as a detective) are hysterical. Worth watching.
This is an adaptation of a successful Broadway play. Most of the cast from the play recreate their parts in the movie including Rita Moreno who won a Tony for the play.
It's well-done with the cast going full force. The play was a slamming door farce that almost never works in movies but here it does. Also the movie is refreshingly non-homophobic. And Moreno and Treat Williams (as a detective) are hysterical. Worth watching.
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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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