Rent The Marx Brothers: Duck Soup (1933)
3.6 of 5 from 183 ratings
1h 5min
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- Synopsis:
- Apointed political satire, 'Duck Soup' is the Marx Brothers' funniest and most insane film. Groucho is Rufus T. Firefly, the hilarious dictator of mythical Freedonia. Harpo and Chico are commissioned as spies by Groucho's political rival, the calculating Trentino (Louis Calhern). The film contains many of the Brothers' famous sequences: the lemonade stand, a masterpiece of slow burn: the Paul Revere parody; the "We're Going to War" number, a beautiful spoof of '30s' musicals; the hilarious mirror scene; and a final battle episode that has been copied by everyone from Woody Allen to Mad Magazine.
- Actors:
- Groucho Marx, Harpo Marx, Chico Marx, The Marx Brothers, Zeppo Marx, Margaret Dumont, Raquel Torres, Louis Calhern, Edmund Breese, Leonid Kinskey, Charles Middleton, Edgar Kennedy, Edward Arnold, Wade Boteler, Sidney Bracey, E.H. Calvert, Davison Clark, Louise Closser Hale, Joseph Crehan, Carrie Daumery
- Directors:
- Leo McCarey
- Producers:
- Herman J. Mankiewicz
- Writers:
- Bert Kalmar, Harry Ruby, Arthur Sheekman, Nat Perrin
- Studio:
- Universal Pictures
- Genres:
- Classics, Comedy, Music & Musicals
- Collections:
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- BBFC:
- Release Date:
- 01/04/2019
- Run Time:
- 69 minutes
- Languages:
- English Dolby Digital 1.0
- Subtitles:
- English Hard of Hearing
- Formats:
- Pal
- Aspect Ratio:
- Full Screen 1.37:1
- Colour:
- B & W
- BLU-RAY Regions:
- B
- Bonus:
- Commentary by Marx Brothers historian Robert S. Bader and film critic Leonard Maltin
- Sibling Revelry, an introduction to the Marx Brothers by critic David Cairns MonkeyNutcrackerDuckFeathers, a new video essay by David Cairns
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Reviews (4) of The Marx Brothers: Duck Soup
Fanspankingly brilliant - The Marx Brothers: Duck Soup review by JD
This is the golden era of one line gags and puerile slapstick comedy. This has to be watched with unsophisticated receptivity. If it is there are rich rewards. Watch this with a grandchild.
2 out of 2 members found this review helpful.
The Pundamental Things Apply - The Marx Brothers: Duck Soup review by CH
Has there been such a gag-laden script as Duck Soup? Both verbally and visually there is so much, so lightly carried, with all its crazy punning logic, these seventy minutes never stale. Even scenes - and there are some - without the Brothers have an allure.
Laugh, and laugh again, at what Graham Greene called Groucho's "vulpine stride" , a gait which also finds a part in several musical numbers which do not hinder proceedings. So effective an anti-war, anri-dictator film is this that Mussolini banned it - and, on the contrary, Churchill did not let the small matter of Hess's crash landing interrupt his evening: "'Well, Hess or no Hess, I'm off to see the Marx Brothers."
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“This is the fifth trip I’ve made today and I haven’t been anywhere yet.” - The Marx Brothers: Duck Soup review by LJ
This is the first Marx Brothers comedy I have seen and I was expecting something else from it, as it is, with everyone constantly trying to be the zany one, it is exhausting and unfunny.
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