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Monkey Business/Horse Feathers/Duck Soup

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Number of Discs
3

Release Date
20/09/2010

Studio
UCA

format
DVD / Box Set

Duration
202

Certificate UK
U

Description

Classic Marx Brothers triple. In 'Monkey Business' (1931), the Marx Brothers' third film and first original screenplay, the brothers are stowaways aboard a luxury ocean liner. While Groucho, Chico and Harpo create mayhem attempting to escape the clutches of the captain and crew, Zeppo embarks on a romance with Mary Helton (Ruth Hall), daughter of retired gangster Joe Helton (Rockliffe Fellowes). When rival gang leader Alky Briggs (Harry Woods) hatches a plot to kidnap Mary and hold her to ransom, it is up to the boys to save the day. 'Horse Feathers' (1932), the Marx Brothers' fourth film, sees them creating havoc on campus in a high school college comedy. The new president of Huxley college, Professor Quincy Adams Wagstaff (Groucho) soon sets about attending to important school business; namely, winning the school their first football game since 1888. On the advice of his son (Zeppo), he enters a local speakeasy, intending to bribe a couple of professional players to make the college team. What he ends up with instead are inept dog catcher Harpo and ice delivery man Chico. However, the duo prove invaluable when Wagstaff becomes romantically involved with the scheming Connie Bailey (Thelma Todd), a college widow who is secretly in league with Huxley's chief rival, Darwin. 'Duck Soup' (1933), the Marx Brothers' fifth feature, is a zany political satire - which so offended Fascist dictator Benito Mussolini that the film was banned in Italy. Appointed president of Freedonia under the patronage of the wealthy Mrs Teasdale (Margaret Dumont), Rufus T Firefly (Groucho) sets about starting a war with neighbouring Sylvania. To this end he trades insults with Sylvanian ambassador Trentino (Louis Calhern), unaware that Trentino's spies Chicolini (Chico) and Pinky (Harpo) are already working to bring down Freedonia from within.

Director: Norman Z. McLeod
Director: Leo McCarey
Producer: Herman Mankiewicz
Writer: Will B. Johnstone
Writer: Bert Kalmer
Writer: S. J. Perelman
Writer: Harry Ruby
Writer: Arthur Sheekman
Writer: Nat Perrin
Music: Hans Dreier
Music: Bert Kalmer
Music: Wiard Ihnen
Music: Harry Ruby
Actor: Margaret Dumont
Actor: Louis Calhern
Actor: Thelma Todd
Actor: Chico Marx
Actor: Groucho Marx
Actor: Harpo Marx
Actor: Zeppo Marx
Actor: The Marx Brothers
Actor: Rockcliffe Fellowes
Actor: Ruth Hall
Actor: Edgar Kennedy
Actor: Harry Woods
Actor: Raquel Torres
Actor: Tom Kennedy
Actor: Verna Hillie
Actor: Ben Taggart
Actor: Edmund Breese
Actor: Leonid Kinskey
Actor: David Landau
Actor: Robert Greig
Actor: Reginald Barlow
Actor: Edgar Dearing
Actor: Frank Rice

Main Format
DVD

Keyword Index
Monkey Business/Horse Feathers/Duck Soup|Margaret Dumont

Colour
B/W

Region
Region 2

Extras 2
Languages(s): English, Interactive Menu

Catalogue Number
8249229

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