Groucho, Chico , Harpo and Zeppo shine hugely in this one , their best movie . The Marx Brothers satiric masterpiece with a lot of entertainment and amusement . Nowadays , this Leo McCarey-shot romp has achieved its proper reputation as the quintaessential Max Brothers vintage. Here Groucho becomes the dictator of Freeedonia and hires Chico and harpo as spies , but they are already working for the enemy . Laughing Soup...concocted, brewed and dished up by the Mad Marxes...Groucho, Harpo, Chico and Zeppo . The fanciest dish of screams -- howls -- beauty and music ever concocted. War Is Swell ...when the Marx Brothers are in it . They'll be out of the trenches by Christmas...if the food doesn't improve .Groucho as Rufus T. Firefly, Dictator of Freedonia ... the only man to know both the President's and the Farmer's daughter. Chico , who swears Admiral Dewey took Vanilla. HARPO as Snoopy the Spy, who shadows so many suspects he becomes afraid of his own shadow. Zeppo , voting for a standing army to save Freedonia money on chairs.
Classic Marx film with many fun sequences , this is the most sustained bit of insanity with full of crazy gags , antics and funny scenes , today being deemed to be an ironical masterpiece and one of the biggest critics hits , including ordinary trappings , and anarchic , irreverent set-pieces. The Marx quartet are well accompanied by a good cast , such as : Louis Calhern , Raquel Torres , Charles Middleton , Edgar Kennedy as lemonade vendor and , of course, Margaret Dumont . Watch for Zeppo Marx as a love-sick tenor in this the last film with the Marx Brothers .The Marx Brothers were still at the peak of their fame in this Paramount musical/comedy. Although it suffers from staginess and musical numbers , but gives the zany threesome plenty of comic elaboration . It works very well , which , unfortunately and sadly , did not prove to be the case with most of the Marx Brothers pictures that went on . Enough gags for give several movies , but our favorite is still the diverting final at the bombarded house . Despite some songs the movie maintains itself very well . Groucho said that this was his favorite among his movies . The Marx Bros are in peak form in this vintage musical comedy with co-star the legendary Margaret Dumont , an obligatory appearance here playing usual wealthy hypochondriac and wealthy lady . This antiestablishment comedy was competently directed by Leo McCarey, though failed miserably at the box office at the time of its release .
Other important films starred by Marx Brothers -many of them Broadway farce plays transfered by scenarists into vehicle for the Brothers- , they are the following ones : ¨Animal crackers¨, ¨Duck soap¨ that was a flop when first released but today considered a masterpiece , ¨Horse Feathers¨, ¨At the circus¨, ¨A night at the Opera¨,¨Day at the races¨ , ¨Room service¨ , ¨Go West¨, ¨Love Happy¨ and ¨Night in Casablanca¨, though in 1946 the Marx formula was weak and wearing thin. Any film with Groucho , Chico , Harpo and Zeppo is well worth seeing .
Classic Marx film with many fun sequences , this is the most sustained bit of insanity with full of crazy gags , antics and funny scenes , today being deemed to be an ironical masterpiece and one of the biggest critics hits , including ordinary trappings , and anarchic , irreverent set-pieces. The Marx quartet are well accompanied by a good cast , such as : Louis Calhern , Raquel Torres , Charles Middleton , Edgar Kennedy as lemonade vendor and , of course, Margaret Dumont . Watch for Zeppo Marx as a love-sick tenor in this the last film with the Marx Brothers .The Marx Brothers were still at the peak of their fame in this Paramount musical/comedy. Although it suffers from staginess and musical numbers , but gives the zany threesome plenty of comic elaboration . It works very well , which , unfortunately and sadly , did not prove to be the case with most of the Marx Brothers pictures that went on . Enough gags for give several movies , but our favorite is still the diverting final at the bombarded house . Despite some songs the movie maintains itself very well . Groucho said that this was his favorite among his movies . The Marx Bros are in peak form in this vintage musical comedy with co-star the legendary Margaret Dumont , an obligatory appearance here playing usual wealthy hypochondriac and wealthy lady . This antiestablishment comedy was competently directed by Leo McCarey, though failed miserably at the box office at the time of its release .
Other important films starred by Marx Brothers -many of them Broadway farce plays transfered by scenarists into vehicle for the Brothers- , they are the following ones : ¨Animal crackers¨, ¨Duck soap¨ that was a flop when first released but today considered a masterpiece , ¨Horse Feathers¨, ¨At the circus¨, ¨A night at the Opera¨,¨Day at the races¨ , ¨Room service¨ , ¨Go West¨, ¨Love Happy¨ and ¨Night in Casablanca¨, though in 1946 the Marx formula was weak and wearing thin. Any film with Groucho , Chico , Harpo and Zeppo is well worth seeing .