contains some of their best work, yes, but in watching it I fast-forward over the sappy interludes involving Kitty Carlisle and Allan Jones. In adding “Duck Soup” to his pantheon of “ Great Movies”, Roger Ebert noted, “‘ A Night at the Opera’. Zeppo plays Firefly’s secretary (he would depart the team following this film). Teasdale himself or start a war whichever comes first. Plan B is to gain control of Freedonia is to romance Mrs. Teasdale (Dumont), Harpo and Chico play two spies hired by Ambassador Trentino (Calhern) of neighboring Sylvania to gather information that would undermine Firefly. Firefly has been installed as leader by the country’s largest (and don’t think Firefly doesn’t comment on that) financial backer, Mrs.
At a time of seemingly unprecedented dysfunction in our nation’s capital and public confidence in its lawmakers at an all-time low, is it time for “Duck Soup,” with its farcical take on government, to go viral?ĭirected by Leo McCarey (“The Awful Truth,” “Ruggles of Red Gap,” various Laurel and Hardy films), “Duck Soup” is set in the mythological kingdom of Freedonia, where Groucho’s Rufus T. It has been almost 50 years since that last Marx Brothers revival. It’s non-stop anarchy that was rediscovered and embraced by college-aged Baby Boomers during the Vietnam War, “don’t trust anybody over 30” and Watergate eras. But it is generally considered by Marx Brothers purists to be the team’s funniest, with no dead spots, gratuitous romantic side plots or even harp and piano solos by Harpo and Chico. We’ll leave for another time whether it is actually funnier than “ Some Like It Hot” (No. In 2000, the American Film Institute ranked “Duck Soup” the fifth funniest comedy of the 20 th century.
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