The Ritz (1976)

Directors

Richard Lester

Cast

Jack Weston, Rita Moreno, Jerry Stiller, Kaye Ballard, F. Murray Abraham, Paul B. Price, Treat Williams, John Everson, Christopher J. Brown, Dave King, Bessie Love

The story

Gaetano Proclo, a heterosexual, checks into the Ritz, a gay bathhouse in Manhattan, to hide from his homicidal brother-in-law, mobster Carmine Vespucci—whose name he uses on the register. As he checks in, Gaetano meets Googie Gomez, a third-rate entertainer who mistakes him for a famous producer. Unbeknownst to him, Carmine has hired Michael Brick, a squeaky-voiced detective, to track down Gaetano.

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