Groucho Marx
11) Animal crackers
Publisher
Universal Studios
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
Comedy classic that loosely centers around a painting stolen during a house party held by a wealthy society woman. This film introduces Groucho's most famous character, Captain Spaulding.
12) Horse feathers
Publisher
Universal Studios
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
Parody of college life with the fun-loving president of Huxley College wooing a floozie who is secretly trying to rig the big football game between Huxley and archrival Darwin U.
13) The cocoanuts
Language
English
Description
"Based on their Broadway hit. The film--one of the first full talkies--takes place in a hotel with owner Groucho out to grab every dollar." --
Pub. Date
2004
Language
English
Description
In Go West: It's 1870 and the Marx Brothers are out to get rich in Dead Man's Gulch. In The Big store: The Brothers reduce an enormous inventory of upscale merchandise into a multilevel disaster as they pursue and evade villains via bicycles, skates, unicycles, broad jumps, shipping chutes, elevator cables, high wires, pole vaults and pseudo-Tarzan chandelier swinging.
16) Monkey business
Publisher
Universal Studios
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
Running from the authorities the Marx Brothers stowaway on a luxury liner where they encounter and become bodyguards for rival gangsters.
Publisher
Time-Life Video
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
In the 1955 episode, Red Skelton and Peter Lorre spoof The Jackie Gleason show.
In the 1962 episode, Red Skelton's George Appleby character has a rather inept guardian angel in Harpo.
Bonus segments include Groucho Marx from an episode of The Sunday spectacular and John Wayne and Jimmy Durante from an episode of The Colgate comedy hour.
Series
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
"Duck soup": To rescue the small country of Freedonia from bankruptcy, Mrs Teasdale agrees to donate 20 million dollars if Rufus T. Firefly is appointed its new president. "Horse feathers": Professor Quincy Wagstaff has just been installed as the new president of Huxley College. "Monkey business": While stowing away on a ship to America, the boys get involuntarily pressed into service as toughs for a pair of feuding gangsters. "Animal crackers": Captain...