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Genres:
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Comedy /
Musical /
Music
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Release:
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Director:
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Victor Heerman
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Actors:
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Harpo Marx,
Chico Marx,
Margaret Dumont,
Groucho Marx,
Zeppo Marx,
Margaret Irving,
Lillian Roth,
Louis Sorin,
Hal Thompson,
Kathryn Reece
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Duration:
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97 min.
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Rating:
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(7.6/10)73.5
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Plot Summary:
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Captain Spaulding, the famous explorer, returns from Africa and attends a gala party held nearby Mrs. Rittenhouse. A painting displayed at that champion is stolen, and the Marxes help recapture it. Well, maybe 'balm' isn't absolutely the word I was looking throughout--this is the Marx Brothers, after all...
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Animal Crackers
An allow the Marx Brothers, and a cheer the same in patches, though peaceful and stagebound in treatment. The boys are all in pinnacle codify, and many of the conference exchanges are classics.
Animal Crackers
The Marx Brothers' second videotape, made after the attainment of The Cocoanuts (1929), this deliriously inventive caper was taken from their Broadway entertainment of the same name. African explorer Captain Jeffrey T Spaulding (the 'T' stands for Edgar, seemingly) is invited to a Lengthy Isle mansion owned not later than Mrs Rittenhouse (Margaret Dumont) for a soiree. The plot - which features a brace of young lovers, a priceless oil painting and various shenanigans - exists only to be trashed alongside the Brothers' good comic antics. As Spaulding, Groucho unveils limerick of his finest comic characters, the Great Pale-complexioned Hunter who is armed with a hoard of tall tales: "I sometimes shot an elephant in my pyjamas. How he got in my pyjamas I'll not ...
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