The 4 Marx Brothers At Paramount 1929-1933 (3 Disk) (Limited Edition) | The Cocoanuts / Animal Crackers / Monkey Business / Horse Feathers / Duck Soup |
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The Marx Brothers Chico, Groucho, Harpo and Zeppo are one of the cornerstones of American comedy. Starting out in vaudeville, they conquered Broadway and the big screen in their own inimitable style, at once innovative, irreverent, anarchic, physical, musical, ludicrous and hilarious.
With the advent of the talkies , the Brothers signed to Paramount Pictures and brought their stage act to cinema audience. They made five films in five years, all of which are in this collection.
The Cocoanuts (1929)
Hammer (Groucho Marx) is the fast-talking owner of a Florida hotel, hoping to make a fortune by persuading wealthy society matron Mrs Potter (Margaret Dumont) and her daughter Polly (Mary Eaton) to invest in the local land boom. He is aided and abetted by a pair of inept conmen (Chico Marx and Harpo Marx) and desk clerk Jamison (Zeppo Marx). However, the quartet soon become distracted from their task when they are recruited to help Polly's sweetheart Bob (Oscar Shaw) prove his innocence after he is wrongfully accused of stealing Mrs Potter's jewels.
Animal Crackers (1930)
Mrs Rittenhouse (Dumont) is throwing a high society party, at which African explorer Jeffrey T. Spaulding (Groucho) is the guest of honour. When a valuable painting is stolen from the house, Spaulding teams up with Italian musician Emanual Ravelli (Chico) and the eccentric Professor (Harpo) to track down the thieves.
Monkey Business (1931)
This features the brothers as 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 (Rockcliffe 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 new president of Huxley College, Professor Quincy Adams Wagstaff (Groucho) sets about attending to important school business; namely, winning the school their first football game since 1888. On the advice of his son Frank (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 Pinky (Harpo) and ice delivery man Baravelli (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 rivals, Darwin.
Duck Soup (1933)
Rufus T. Firefly (Groucho) is appointed president of Freedonia under the patronage of the wealthy Mrs Teasdale (Dumont) and 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. |
Ekstra features:
- Commentary on The Cocoanuts by film scholar Anthony Slide
- Commentary on Animal Crackers by film historian Jeffrey Vance
- Commentary on Monkey Business by Marx Brothers historian Robert S Bader and Bill Marx, son of Harpo Marx
- Commentary on Horse Feathers by film critic FX Feeney
- Commentary on Duck Soup by Bader and film critic Leonard Maltin
- The Marx Brothers: Hollywood s Kings of Chaos, a feature-length documentary containing interviews with Leonard Maltin, Dick Cavett and others
- Three excerpts from NBC s The Today Show featuring interviews with Harpo Marx, Groucho Marx and Bill Marx
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| Instruktør:
Joseph Santley
Leo McCarey
Norman Z. McLeod
Robert Florey
The Marx Brothers
Victor Heerman
Skuespillere:
Basil Ruysdael
Bobby Barber
Charles Middleton
Chico Marx
Cyril Ring
David L. Lander
E.H. Calvert
Eddie Baker
Edgar Kennedy
Edmund Breese
Gamby-Hale Ballet Girls
Groucho Marx
Hal Thompson
Harpo Marx
Harry Woods
Joseph Santley
Kathryn Reece
Kay Francis
Leonid Kinskey
Lillian Roth
Louis Calhern
Louis Sorin
Margaret Dumont
Margaret Irving
Mary Eaton
Norman Z. McLeod
Oscar Shaw
Raquel Torres
Reginald Barlow
Robert Florey
Robert Greig
Rockliffe Fellowes
Ruth Hall
Sheila Bromley
The Marx Brothers
Thelma Todd
Tom Kennedy
Victor Heerman
Vince Barnett
Zeppo Marx
Producent:
Herman J. Mankiewicz
James R. Cowan
Jesse L. Lasky
Forfatter:
Bert Kalmar
George S. Kaufman
Harry Ruby
Morrie Ryskind
S.J. Perelman
Will B. Johnstone
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