from Paramount Pictures
Directed by
Leo McCarey
Starring
Groucho Marx (Rufus T. Firefly)
Harpo Marx (Pinky)
Chico Marx (Chicolini)
Zeppo Marx (Bob Rolland)
Margaret Dumont (Mrs. Teasdale)
Raquel Torres (Vera Marcal)
Louis Calhern (Ambassador Trentino)
Edmund Breese (Zander)
Leonid Kinskey (Agitator)
Charles Middleton (Prosecutor)
Verna Hillie (Secretary)
Edgar Kennedy (Lemonade Dealer)
George MacQuarrie (First Judge)
Edwin Maxwell (Secretary of War)
William Worthington (First Minister of Finance)
E.H. Calvert
Davison Clark (Second Minister of Finance)
Eric Mayne (Third Judge)
Frederick Sullivan (Second Judge)
Written by
Bert Kalmar
Harry Ruby
Nat Perrin (dialogue)
Arthur Sheekman (dialogue) |
 Duck Soup is the Marx Brothers'
most anarchic and irreverent film, considered by many to be their
masterpiece. Groucho plays Rufus T. Firefly, dictator of the
tiny nation of Freedonia, who decides to go to war with a neighboring
country just because he's already paid a month's rent on the
battlefield. Chico and Harpo come on board as two rather bumbling
and incompetent spies, meant to assist Rufus in his military
maneuvers. Comic madness ensues, culminating in the famous mirror
sequence featuring three identical Grouchos -- two of them Chico
and Harpo in disguise. Was a flop when first released. Zeppo's
last screen appearance with his brothers.
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