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MPAA Rating: PG-13 Content Advisory: Violence, Adult Situations, Profanity Movie Release: 1992 DVD Release: 12/09/2003 Format: DVD - Enhanced Wide Screen Letterbox for 16x9 TV - Closed Captioned SwapaDVD Credits: 1 Number of Discs: 1 Run Time: 1 hrs 18 mins Studio: Walt Disney Video Members Wishing: 1 Genres: Comedy, Farce, Comedy of Errors

Brevity may be the soul of wit, but that doesn't make the 79-minute Blame It on the Bellboy any funnier. Orton (Dudley Moore) is an ambitious real estate agent. Horton (Richard Griffiths) is a middle-aged married man looking for extracurricular activity via a dating service. And Lawton (Bryan Brown) is a professional hit man. Orton, Horton and Lawton all check into adjoining rooms at a posh Venetian hotel. Bellboy Bronson Pinchot, whose grasp of the English language is virtually nonexistent, delivers the wrong messages to the three men. That's why Orton is trying to sell a valuable piece of property to a roomful of mafiosi, Horton is "paired up" with an unwitting female real estate broker, and Lawton is preparing to rub out a hapless dating-service subscriber......Written by director Mark Herman, this old-style doorslamming farce might have passed muster as a dinner-theater attraction, but on film it comes across as strained and tiresome. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide

Dudley Moore - Melvyn Orton
Bryan Brown - Charlton Black
Bryan Brown - Mike Lawton
Richard Griffiths - Maurice Horton
Andreas Katsulas - Bettino Scarpa
Patsy Kensit - Caroline Wright

This farcical comedy has been given a simple presentation for its release on DVD. Blame It on the Bellboy has been given a letterboxed transfer to disc in its original widescreen aspect ratio; the images have also been enhanced for anamorphic playback on 16 x 9 monitors. The audio has been mastered in Dolby Digital Stereo. The dialogue is in English, with no multiple-language options, though English subtitles for the hearing impaired have been included. No additional bonus material has been included for this edition. ~ Mark Deming, All Movie Guide