After a considerable delay, here's part 1 of "Duck Soup", the fifth Marx Brothers film and the last they made for Paramount (and incidentally the last Marx film with Zeppo). It bombed in 1933, but is now (rightfully, IMO) considered to be one of the funniest movies of all time.BTW, "Duck Soup" also marks (no pun intended) the first time Margaret Dumont worked with the Marxes on a script written directly for the screen- her two previous films with them had been based on stage plays.
Margaret Dumont is always dramatic in the Marx Brothers films, yet the Marx Brothers are always not taking anything seriously...(And they are usually in postions of power!)
barryrrab(November 30, 2008 at 1:00 pm)
will you marry me? did he leave you any money? Answer the second question first... excellent
68blues(November 30, 2008 at 12:42 am)
Knufists... i'm 56 and i watched this with my dad. An absolute classic.Friend you have immaculate taste.Don't let anybody tell you different.
lordalessan(November 26, 2008 at 10:44 pm)
oh goody I want one!
GEVMM(November 17, 2008 at 3:46 pm)
Every line he says is HILARIOUS!
xdrowningxdollyx(November 17, 2008 at 10:57 am)
"You expecting somebody?"
sHaDoWoFsWoRdS(November 15, 2008 at 7:41 pm)
LMAO when he shits himself when he secretary says "here i am" and he goes running behind the woman! hahaha....."i could dance with u till the cows come home, on 2nd thought id rather dance with the cows till u come home"....bloody legend man!
JOmonkeyJO(November 13, 2008 at 6:42 pm)
i have the collecters edition
bradleighstockwell(November 10, 2008 at 7:57 pm)
Weikko79 is just being picky. The ELEMENTS of screwball are all OVER the Marx Brothers films. Wikipedia also says you can find screwball qualities in Oscar Wilde and, yes, even Shakespeare. "It Happened One Night" is just a film where it all comes together - "officially," anyway. But you're NOT wrong. Films of the Marx Bros., Max Linder, Chaplin and others were already there, Wikipedia notwithstanding. A director associated with the genre is Leo McCarey; he directed "Duck Soup."
LazlosPlane(November 6, 2008 at 4:22 pm)
Because politicians have always been corrupt. Only there much more EVIL now.
Sakeytheninja(November 4, 2008 at 3:52 am)
Oh, alright, thanks man. I appreciate the correction.
weikko79(November 2, 2008 at 4:20 am)
I'm sorry, but you've got it all wrong. Screwball comedies only started a year after this comedy was made, with Capra's "It Happened One Night" and Hawks's "Twentieth Century", both released in 1934. Screwball comedies were movies involving "normal" (often very sophisticated) people to whom all sorts of weird and "screwy" things started happening. The Marx Bros movies belonged to a different category. Check Wikipedia if you want to learn more.
