The Ritz is a 1976 British-American comedy farce film directed by Richard Lester based on the 1975 play of the same name by Terrence McNally.

The Ritz: Directed by Richard Lester. With Jack Weston, Rita Moreno, Jerry Stiller, Kaye Ballard. Evading a mob contract on his life, a heterosexual man winds up hiding out at a homosexual bathhouse.

Gaetano stumbles across an assortment of oddball characters, including a rabid chubby chaser, go-go boys, a squeaky-voiced detective, and Googie Gomez, a third-rate entertainer with visions of Broadway glory who mistakes him for a famous producer and whom he mistakes for a …

Weston, lugging two ungainly suitcases under his arms, barges into an art deco underworld in which the customers languidly swim, exercise, steam themselves, applaud camp musical performances at poolside and disappear into rows of numbered cubicles. Weston’s role here is to be the archetypal straight man.

2016年3月11日 · Director Richard Lester’s almost creepy opening, Jack Weston and Kaye Ballard, with their kids and her mobbed-up brother Jerry Stiller, awaiting the passing of George Coulouris, as old-man Vespucci, from Terrence McNally’s play and screenplay, in The Ritz, 1976, starring Rita Moreno.

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Evading a mob contract on his life, a heterosexual man winds up hiding out at a homosexual bathhouse. On his deathbed, Carmine Vespucci's mobster father tells him to "get Proclo" - Carmine's brother-in-law Gaetano. With "the hit" on, Gaetano tells a cab driver to take him where Carmine can't find him.

When nerdy Cleveland native Gaetano Proclo discovers that his mobster brother-in-law has ordered a hit on him, he desperately begs his cab driver to take him to the last place the mafia would look for him--and finds himself inside The Ritz.