Marx Brothers "DUCK SOUP" 1933
English | DVD-Rip | DivX | 1 h 09 min | 400 x 304 | 119 kbps | 23.00 fps | MP3 | 128kbps | 462 Mb
English | DVD-Rip | DivX | 1 h 09 min | 400 x 304 | 119 kbps | 23.00 fps | MP3 | 128kbps | 462 Mb
Duck Soup is indisputably the Marx Brothers' greatest film. It is the last of the five films the Brothers made for Paramount Pictures during their most creative and anarchic period. The first two films, Cocoanuts (1929) and Animal Crackers (1930) were adaptations of their hit stage comedies and suffer from a theatrical inertia, while the next three, Monkey Business (1931), Horse Feathers (1932), and Duck Soup, were based on original screenplays. Duck Soup was the only one of these films that fully integrated and balanced all of the Marx Brothers' comic elements. Perhaps because of its uncompromisingly absurd nature the film was a resounding commercial failure and with its failure the Marx Brothers had their contract with Paramount terminated. They relocated to MGM where they were constrained by superfluous love stories with juvenile leads and an increased number of extraneous musical interludes. Ironically, these films for MGM were their most successful films commercially but perhaps marked the beginning of the end of their feature film careers
Cast:
Groucho Marx, Harpo Marx, Chico Marx , Zeppo Marx, Margaret Dumont, Louis Calhern , Raquel Torres , Edgar Kennedy , Edmund Breese , William Worthington
Director: Leo McCarey
Written by : Bert Kalmar, Harry Ruby, Nat Perrin (additional dialogue), Arthur Sheekman (additional dialogue)
Music : Bert Kalmar, Harry Ruby
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