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1.Duck Soup starring: Groucho Marx, Harpo Marx, Chico Marx, Zeppo Marx, Margaret Dumont directed by: Leo McCarey March 01, 1992
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Duck Soup (1933) - Leo McCarey The Marx Brothers are almost totally unique in the history of film, and when I say unique, I'm not even referring to how innovative they are. True, they definitely developed a particular style of comedy that I would say is probably now the dominant form in all of American comedy. How would I characterize it? It's difficult, but it includes a combination of anarchy, irony, and self-awareness. I paraphrase Roger Ebert when he states that you can clearly see what the Marx Bros. influenced, but its difficult to see what influenced them, other than the rich tradition of music hall. However, again, when I say that they are totally unique, I'm referring to something else. If one notices carefully at all the groups and individuals that the ... Read More

2.A Night at the Opera starring: Groucho Marx, Chico Marx, Harpo Marx, Kitty Carlisle, Allan Jones directed by: Edmund Goulding, Sam Wood January 27, 1993
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When the Marx Brothers came to MGM in 1935, boy wonder producer Irving Thalberg had the good commercial sense to package them in a genuine musical comedy. Their anarchic comedy may have been slightly better served in some earlier Paramount comedies but never were they better showcased than here, their most popular film because of the balance of entertainment on offer and the quality of the production values provided by MGM, the Rolls Royce of film studios at the time. For those who know the Marx Brothers, there is little to say. Furthermore, there are lots of excellent Amazon reviews which can fill you in. For those younger people who may not know the team, do yourself a favour and watch this film. You may baulk at the love interest sub plot and the music but don't miss some of the very ... Read More

3.A Day at the Races starring: Groucho Marx, Chico Marx, Harpo Marx, Allan Jones, Maureen O'Sullivan directed by: Sam Wood January 27, 1993
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When the Marx Brothers came to MGM in 1935, boy wonder producer Irving Thalberg had the good commercial sense to package them in a genuine musical comedy which widened their box office appeal enormously although it detracted from the pure gold of their earlier anarchic Paramount comedies. "A Day at the Races" followed the formula of the hugely successful "A Night at the Opera", but it was was the beginning of the end of their golden period. The problem is simply that while the boys are very good, there is just not enough of them and in inverse proportion, a dumb love story with the charming Allan Jones and the equally charming but sappy Maureen O'Sullivan. Also, there is a notable softening of their characters, particularly Harpo and that diminishes them. The film also has 2 major ... Read More

4.Monkey Business starring: Groucho Marx, Harpo Marx, Chico Marx, Zeppo Marx, Rockliffe Fellowes directed by: Norman Z. McLeod May 18, 1994
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That's the new and most recent, 1931, manual for how to immigrate illegally into the US via New York, Ellis Island, and then how to succeed in the gangster dominated society of New York City. Of you are a stowaway, better be four because they will never be able to find you all and one will always be able to make them run in one direction while the three others are either eating, or resting, or playing, or flirting, or whatever. Then of course you have to rotate the one or the two who are running and chasing the officials on the ship. Funny business indeed, monkey business for sure, but who is the monkey, who are the apes? Then the best strategy is to select two competing gangsters, who are here only to enjoy gambling and drinking, on the ship and manage to become their bodyguards. Two for one and the other two for ... Read More

5.The Life of Riley - The William Bendix Episodes (2 VHS Set) starring: Gloria Blondell, Marie Brown, Douglass Dumbrille, Martin Milner, Veda Ann Borg October 20, 1997
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That's the new and most recent, 1931, manual for how to immigrate illegally into the US via New York, Ellis Island, and then how to succeed in the gangster dominated society of New York City. Of you are a stowaway, better be four because they will never be able to find you all and one will always be able to make them run in one direction while the three others are either eating, or resting, or playing, or flirting, or whatever. Then of course you have to rotate the one or the two who are running and chasing the officials on the ship. Funny business indeed, monkey business for sure, but who is the monkey, who are the apes? Then the best strategy is to select two competing gangsters, who are here only to enjoy gambling and drinking, on the ship and manage to become their bodyguards. Two for one and the other two for ... Read More

6.You Bet Your Life: Groucho Marx (7pc) starring: Groucho Marx March 28, 2000
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GROUCHO WAS THE GENIUS OF THE DOUBLE ENTENDRES.YOU BET YOUR LIFE IS TIMELESS AND WILL LIVE FOREVER!!!!!!!IT SHOULD BE BROUGHT BACK TO TV.THANK GOD FOR VHS AND DVD!!!!!!!

7.Rodgers and Hammerstein - The Sound of Movies starring: Julie Andrews, Charles Boyer, Charmian Carr, Charles Farrell, Nancy Kwan directed by: Kevin Burns March 18, 1997
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Both my husband and I thoroughly enjoyed hearing once again the music of Rodgers & Hammerstein and watching clips from movies that we saw many years ago. It all brought back pleasant memories and we've decided that they just don't write movie musicals like they used to. And what a shame.

8.Love Happy (B&W) starring: Groucho Marx, Harpo Marx, Chico Marx, Ilona Massey, Vera-Ellen directed by: David Miller, Leo McCarey April 15, 1997
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LOVE HAPPY is the Marx Brothers' final starring feature film, though the spotlight here is on Harpo (the real star of the picture), while Chico and especially Groucho have supporting roles. This one is primarily for Marx completists, who will be delighted to learn that the print used for this DVD transfer runs 91 minutes rather than the standard 85-minute version previously released on VHS ... and seen on TV and in theatrical revivals. I'm not sure where this longer cut has been languishing all these years (the DVD is a Republic Pictures/Lions Gate release, yet there's a Paramount/Viacom logo too), but the shorter edition is the one that's been in general circulation over the past four decades. It's surprising that Republic didn't toot their own horn about having made this longer version available. Did they even realize it was ... Read More

9.Animal Crackers starring: Groucho Marx, Harpo Marx, Chico Marx, Zeppo Marx, Lillian Roth directed by: Victor Heerman March 01, 1992
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The depression is finally arrived and the Marx Brothers are having it easy more than ever, stealing silverware and paintings and anything they can set their fingers on. When the rich are living well, they know how to throw a party in their fancy homes and invite all kinds of funny characters that are nothing but funny and have absolutely nothing in common except their grotesqueness. But beware the musicians or artists you may invite because you may invite trouble more than music. And the four siblings are adding their touch of delirium tremens to that alco-hole which is no waterhole though there is no alcohol in this prohibition blind alley that is as dark as the wine cellar in which you keep the roof of the house for the chimneys not to get wet when it rains. And they play on the dumbness of one, I mean muteness though I do not reject dumbness ... Read More

10.Cocoanuts starring: Groucho Marx, Harpo Marx, Chico Marx, Zeppo Marx, Oscar Shaw directed by: Joseph Santley, Robert Florey March 01, 1992
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I have never been as big a fan of The Marx Brothers as I have been of other great comedy teams, be it the verbal brilliance of Abbott & Costello, the pathos laden antics of Laurel & Hardy, nor the violent slapstick of The Three Stooges. The reason is because the team's success or failure basically falls all on the shoulders of its lone truly brilliant member, Groucho Marx. The first film to feature the zany antics of the brothers was the 1929 talkie film of their 1926 Broadway comedy hit, The Cocoanuts. They did, however, self-finance an earlier silent film called Humorisk, which was a critical disaster, in its lone showing, and of which no known copies seem to exist. In a sense, the heart of the brothers' act in all their films is not when the three (or four, including the forgettable Zeppo, who plays a hotel desk clerk in this outing) brothers ... Read More

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