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Duck Soup

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Comedy starring the Marx Brothers. Hired by Freedonia to become their new dictator, Rufus T Firefly declares war on the rival state of Sylvania.

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A star rating of 5 out of 5.

Tom Hutchinson

The Marx Brothers reached peaks of anarchic brilliance in this comedy masterpiece, which burst upon audiences four years after their primitive feature debut in The Cocoanuts. Groucho, Chico, Harpo and the uncharismatic Zeppo - in his final screen role - are all entangled in a runaway satire that finds Groucho as a Ruritanian leader going to war because he has paid a month's advance rent on the battlefield. What helps make this the funniest of the Marx Brothers pictures - besides the absence of the romantic interludes that dogged later outings - are the exchanges between Groucho's Rufus T Firefly and Margaret Dumont's stately matriarch ("I could dance with you until the cows come home. On second thought, I'd rather dance with the cows till you come home"), and there's also a stunningly surreal mirror sequence.

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rolenameRufus T FireflyGroucho MarxPinkyHarpo MarxChicoliniChico MarxBob RolandZeppo MarxMrs Gloria TeasdaleMargaret DumontVera MarcalRaquel TorresAmbassador Trentino of SylvaniaLouis CalhernZanderEdmund BreeseAgitatorLeonid KinskeyProsecutorCharles MiddletonStreet vendorEdgar KennedySecretaryVerna HillieBridegroom at Firefly's receptionDennis O'Keefe

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rolenameDirectorLeo McCarey

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Theatrical distributor

Universal

Released on

2015-01-16

Languages

English

Available on

video, DVD and Blu-ray

Formats

Black and white

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