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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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Leo McCarey
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Actors:
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Louis Calhern,
Harpo Marx,
Chico Marx,
Margaret Dumont,
Groucho Marx,
Edmund Breese,
Zeppo Marx,
Raquel Torres,
Leonid Kinskey,
Charles Middleton
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Duration:
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68 min.
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Rating:
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(8.1/10)107
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Plot Summary:
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Possibly the most graciously known of any Marx Fellow-creature's films, made during the depression of 1933. Groucho stars as Rufus T Firefly, overlord of mythical Freedonia. Harpo and Chico have been commissioned as spies at near Grouchs' challenge, Trentino.
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Duck Soup
Is it a deceptively urbane bureaucratic caricature or unambiguously a specific of the great anarchic comedies to arise from Hollywood? Whichever, included the charge of director Leo McCarey, a battle-scarred of Laurel and Robust and Eddie Cantor comedies, the Marx Brothers have several of their finest moments. The touching republics of Sylvania and Freedonia are at loggerheads. Rufus T Firefly (Groucho) is brought in alongside Freedonia's benefactress Mrs Teesdale (Dumont) to restore the hinterlands's fortunes, and satisfied ample supply, with the help of inept double-agents Pinky (Harpo) and Chicolini (Chico), the two countries are in a minute at hostilities. Zeppo is also there in his final wall part as Firefly's secretary Bob. The film ...
Duck Soup
The Marx Brothers reached peaks of anarchic brilliance in this comedy master-work, which puncture upon audiences four years after their primitive feature launching in The Cocoanuts. Groucho, Chico, Harpo and the uncharismatic Zeppo — in his final concealment part — are all entangled in a runaway travesty that finds Groucho as a Ruritanian chairman thriving to war because he has paid a month's advance farm out on the battlefield. What helps make this the funniest of the Marx Brothers pictures — including the want of the romantic interludes that dogged later outings — are the exchanges between Groucho and Margaret Dumont's stately matriarch, extra a stunningly surreal represent sequence.
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