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Harpo Marx | Pinky | |
Chico Marx | Chicolini | |
Margaret Dumont | Mrs. Gloria Teasdale | |
Zeppo Marx | Lt. Bob Roland | |
Raquel Torres | Vera Marcal | |
Groucho Marx | Rufus T. Firefly | |
Edgar Kennedy | ||
Louis Calhern | Ambassador Trentino of Sylvania | |
Edmund Breese | Zander | |
Verna Hillie | Trentino's Secretary | |
Leonid Kinskey | Sylvanian Agitator | |
Charles Middleton | Prosecutor |
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Producer | Herman J. Mankiewicz
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Writer | Bert Kalmar
Harry Ruby Arthur Sheekman Nat Perrin |
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Apointed political satire, Duck Soup is the Marx Brothers' funniest and most insane film. Groucho is Rufus T. Firefly, the hilarious dictator of mythical Freedonia. Harpo and Chico are commisioned as spies by Groucho's political rival, the calculating Trentino. The film contains many of the Brothers' famous sequences: the lemonade stand, a masterpiece of slow burn; the Paul Revere parody; the "We're Going To War" number, a beautiful spoof of 30's musicals; the hilarious mirror scene; and a final battle episode that has been copied by everyone from Woody Allen to Mad Magazine.. |
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