All posts tagged "Groucho Marx"

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  Radio 4: The Programmes

  Flywheel, Shyster & Flywheel

  NOTE-PERFECT impersonator-facilitated recreation of lost Marx Brothers radio show

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  Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter?

  Ex-Warners animator Frank ‘Babitt and Catstello’ Tashlin reunites with Jayne Mansfield a year after The Girl Can’t Help It employing basically the...

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  Skidoo

  The late ’60s had a mind-expanding effect on Hollywood. Even Otto Preminger, director of such sober fare as Anatomy of a Murder...

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  Monkey Business

  The first full-steam outing for the Marx Brothers, stowing away in barrels of kippered herring for an entrance to top all entrances....

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  Duck Soup

  As a change from Norman Z MacLeod, the Marx Brothers, for the first time, insisted on picking their own director, and went...

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  Night at the Opera, A

  The Marx Brothers’ first MGM effort, derided by the dafter variety of Marx fan for the admittedly strenuous dramatic plot imposed by...

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  Go West

  Impoverished fourth MGM Marx outing, with a plot nicked wholesale off Laurel and Hardy’s Way Out West and a sad air of...

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  Cream Classics

  Horse Feathers

  Your actual funny film, here.

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  Day at the Races, A

  The Marx Brothers’ second MGM outing, this, very much in the mould of Opera format-wise, and subsequently talked down as its inferior...

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  At the Circus

  A poor MGM Marx Brothers affair.