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DUCK SOUP
1933
Director
Leo McCarey
Starring
Groucho Marx
Harpo Marx
Zeppo Marx
Chico Marx
Margaret Dumont
Runtime
68 minutes
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The greatest of all the Marx Brothers’ films, DUCK SOUP masks its trenchant satire on fascism and war in a cloak of hilarious sight gags and clever repartee. Set in the tiny country of Freedonia (Land of the Spree and Home of the Knave), the film brings together Groucho as newly appointed president Rufus T. Firefly, Harpo and Chico as enemy spies, and Zeppo as a tenor.
Director Leo McCarey's experience working with all manner of comedian and his comfort with improvisation both served him well when it came to directing the anarchic brothers. Patriotism, religion, diplomacy, courtroom justice, and general matters of state are incisively ridiculed in one of the funniest movies ever to emerge from the studio system. YOU WILL LAUGH.
- Tom Huddleston, Time Out
Director Leo McCarey's experience working with all manner of comedian and his comfort with improvisation both served him well when it came to directing the anarchic brothers. Patriotism, religion, diplomacy, courtroom justice, and general matters of state are incisively ridiculed in one of the funniest movies ever to emerge from the studio system. YOU WILL LAUGH.