the ritz

Director: richard lester

Actor: jack weston,rita moreno,jerry stiller,kaye ballard

Data Published: Sun Dec 26 1976

Genres: Comedy

Key Words: gay stereotype,pretending to be gay,nightclub singer,brother sister relationship,rainstorm

IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0075144/

WIKI: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Ritz_(film)

Description: The Ritz is a movie starring Jack Weston, Rita Moreno, and Jerry Stiller. 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...

Plot: Set in a gay bathhouse in Manhattan, where unsuspecting heterosexual Cleveland businessman Gaetano Proclo has taken refuge from his homicidal mobster brother-in-law, Carmine Vespucci. There, 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 Puerto Rican entertainer with visions of Broadway glory who mistakes him for a famous producer and whom he mistakes for a man in drag. Further complications arise when Gaetano's wife Vivian tracks him down and jumps to all the wrong conclusions about his sexual orientation.