Marx Brothers: Monkey Business / Horse Feathers / Duck Soup

Film Description

Monkey Business (Norman Z. McLeod, 1931), in which the Marx Brothers become bodyguards for rival gangsters.

Horse Feathers (Norman Z. McLeod, 1932), an early-period Marx Brothers classic featuring an anarchic parody of college life with a justly celebrated football match climax and the famed 'swordfish' exchange between Groucho and Chico. The song routines, often one of the weak points of Marx Brothers movies, are of a superior standard here.

Duck Soup (Leo McCarey, 1933), a pointed political satire of 30s Europe featuring Groucho as Rufus T Firefly, the dictator of strife-torn Freedonia. The final battle has inspired everyone from Woody Allen to Mad Magazine.

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• Classic Movies / Comedy
• Comedy