The latter movie had even featured Louis Calhern as a scheming diplomat! The spy trial of Chicolini, possibly the funniest Chico routine in the team’s cinematic record. Technically it is the only musical number in the Marx Brothers' films to feature all four of the brothers. And I know what to do with it, Harpo responds by stepping knee-deep into Kennedy's lemonade tank, where he imitates a stereotypical Italian grape-crushing peasant; this drives off Kennedy's waiting line of customers. No, sadly, never again. So what?” Plus, the zany political satire thing had been done recently at the time, not just the previously mentioned Of Thee I Sing (which the Marxes had considered adapting) but also in movies starring fellow comedians like W.C. Fields (Million Dollar Legs, 1932), Jolson, Langdon et al (Hallelujah I’m a Bum, 1933), Jack Pearl (Meet the Baron, 1933) and Wheeler and Woolsey (Diplomaniacs, 1933). There have been detractors of Leo McCarey regarding this film but I think it’s wonderfully directed. In the "mirror scene", Pinky, dressed as Firefly, pretends to be Firefly's reflection in a missing mirror, matching his every move—including absurd ones that begin out of sight—to near perfection. 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Lyrics from a song in the 1933 Marx Brothers' comedy Duck Soup entitled "The Country's Going to War," read as follows: "We're going to war.I think we're going to war." The country's taxes must be fixed, It's a pleasure to report that Marilyn Beck is full of it. If anyone's caught taking graft, [16], The melodramatic exclamation "This means war!" Many of the bits that fans cherish are not Marx specific. Universal Home Video released Duck Soup on DVD, unrestored but uncut, as part of a six-disc box set The Marx Brothers: Silver Screen Collection, which includes also the Brothers' other Paramount films, The Cocoanuts, Animal Crackers, Monkey Business, and Horse Feathers. Change ), You are commenting using your Twitter account. Kalmar, who was known as a rational and calm man, said to Ruby, "I'm going over to hit him. [12], "Duck soup" was American English slang at that time; it meant something easy to do. "[44] The Nashville Scene detected "an echo here of that funniest of xenophobe-baiting funnies, Duck Soup. He also sings with the others in "Freedonia's Going to War", filling out the four-cornered symmetry as the Brothers sing and dance in pairs during the number.[7]. [3] The New York Post reported on May 17 that the Brothers would make a new comedy for Paramount, called Duck Soup. If you should make him cross, One specific gag from the original, the constant singing of the Freedonian national anthem, was spoofed in particular with a Perry Como caricature. In many of their later movies, the Marx Brothers would sometimes seem to be playing second fiddle to this inferior element, making fans pine for the glory days of Duck Soup. Αδελφοί Μαρξ - Irmãos Marx. Chain of Fools: Silent Comedy and Its Legacies from Nickelodeons to Youtube. "[29] British film critic Barry Norman was slightly cautious about the Marx Brothers overall, but considered Duck Soup their best and included it in his 100 best films of the 20th century. The film opened to mixed reviews,[3] although this by itself did not end the group's business with Paramount. In one particularly surreal moment, the two men swap positions, introducing the question of which is the reflection. (All singing done by the character Rufus T. Firefly, played by Groucho Marx, unless otherwise noted:) The music part of the one shown here is from a different edition to the one with Groucho on the cover, Pease Weasie was the exclusive finale song of. Audiences were taken aback by such preposterous political disregard, buffoonery, and cynicism at a time of economic and political crisis. *As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases. (5)The population must increase, Zeppo, as usual, plays, according to James Agee, "a peerlessly cheesy improvement on the traditional straight man",[20] in his final on-screen appearance with his Brothers. We of course see its countless virtues. However, on May 11, 1933, the Marx Brothers' father Sam "Frenchie" Marx died in Los Angeles,[2] and shortly afterward the contract dispute with Paramount was settled. and Pop goes the Weasel! In our midst you stand The ruler of this land, [Thalberg] says, "You gotta put a love story in your movie so there'll be something to root for, and you have to help the lovers get together. Many people found it funny, but no one found it new or fresh. I'm strictly on the up and up, [32] It is also one of the earliest films to appear on Roger Ebert's list of The Great Movies.[29]. [4] Film critic Danel Griffin believes that Duck Soup is "on par with other war comedies like Chaplin's The Great Dictator and Kubrick's Dr. Strangelove, only slightly more unnerving in that Duck Soup doesn't seem to realize it is anything more than innocent fluff. The last man went and flew with it. Already at this early stage, the story (provisionally entitled Oo La La)[6] was set in a mythical kingdom. Mrs. Teasdale begins singing the Freedonia national anthem in her operatic voice and the Brothers begin hurling fruit at her instead. We stand him up against the wall There’s a crispness to the look of it that appeals to me.

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