Animal_Crackers (The Marx Brothers) ENG_SPA_ITA_GER_FRE

Animal Crackers







Year: 1930

Technical data

Director Victor Heerman

Cast Groucho Marx, Harpo Marx, Chico Marx, Zeppo Marx, Lillian Roth, Margaret Dumont, Louis Sorin, Hal Thompson, Margaret Irving

Length 92 min

Video Pal

Widescreen , 4:3

Languages Dolby Digital 2.0: English, German, French, Italian, Spanish

Subtitles English, French, Italian, Spanish, German, Arabic, Danish, Finnish, Greek, Hebrew, Norwegian, Portuguese, Russian, Swedish, Turkish, Dutch



Synopsis



Animal Crackers, like The Cocoanuts before is an all-but-literal translation to film of a smash-hit Marx Brothers Broadway musical. The aristocratic Mrs. Rittenhouse (Margaret Dumont) holds a weekend party at her Long Island Estate. Her guest of honor is famed (but likely fraudulent) African explorer Geoffrey T. Spaulding (Groucho Marx). Also showing up are renegade musician Signor Emmanuel Ravelli (Chico Marx), the mute, girl-chasing "Professor" (Harpo Marx) and Spaulding's faithful secretary Horatio Jamison (Zeppo Marx). The film, revolving around a stolen painting, finds Groucho lecturing on his most recent safari ("One morning I shot an elephant in my pajamas. How he got in my pajamas, I don't know"), Harpo and Chico unabashedly cheating at bridge, Groucho dictating a wildly nonsequitur letter to the firm of Hungerdunger, Hungerdunger, Hungerdunger and McCormick, and Groucho and Chico drawing up plans to build a house.



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