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Duck Soup

Groucho Marx (Actor), Harpo Marx (Actor), Leo McCarey (Director) Format: DVD

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Genre	DVD Movie, Blu-ray Movie, Comedy, The Marx Brothers
Format	NTSC, Subtitled
Contributor	Chico Marx, Margaret Dumont, Edgar Kennedy, Herman J. Mankiewicz, Harpo Marx, Raquel Torres, Zeppo Marx, Leo McCarey, Groucho Marx, Louis Calhern, Harry Ruby, Bert Kalmar See more
Language	English
Runtime	1 hour and 9 minutes

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Groucho, Harpo, Chico and Zeppo Marx are at their very best in the political satire Duck Soup which is often regarded as the comedy legends’ funniest and most popular film. After being appointed dictator of Freedonia, Rufus T. Firefly (Groucho) proceeds to bring the mythical nation to a halt by showing up late and insulting everyone at his inauguration. Hoping to oust the unfit new leader, two spies (Harpo and Chico) are sent from the neighboring Sylvania. Soon enough, war is declared between the two nations with outrageous results. Recognized on the AFI’s 100 Years…100 Laughs list and selected for the National Film Registry, this comedy classic features some of the most hilarious sequences every filmed, including the famous mirror sequence and final battle scene, and remains as entertaining and relevant today as it did when it was first released in 1933.

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Aspect Ratio ‏ : ‎ 1.33:1
Is discontinued by manufacturer ‏ : ‎ No
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Product Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 19.05 x 13.72 x 1.52 cm; 113.4 Grams
Canadian Home Video Rating ‏ : ‎ General Audience (G)
Manufacturer reference ‏ : ‎ MCAD61122004D
Director ‏ : ‎ Leo McCarey
Media Format ‏ : ‎ NTSC, Subtitled
Run time ‏ : ‎ 1 hour and 9 minutes
Release date ‏ : ‎ March 6 2012
Actors ‏ : ‎ Groucho Marx, Harpo Marx, Chico Marx, Zeppo Marx, Margaret Dumont
Dubbed: ‏ : ‎ Spanish
Subtitles: ‏ : ‎ French, Spanish
Language ‏ : ‎ English (Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono), Spanish (Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono)
Studio ‏ : ‎ Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Producers ‏ : ‎ Herman J. Mankiewicz
ASIN ‏ : ‎ B006TTC5UO
Writers ‏ : ‎ Bert Kalmar, Harry Ruby
Number of discs ‏ : ‎ 1

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Larry Sedlacek

Laughter

Reviewed in Canada 🇨🇦 on April 29, 2023

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This movie brought back nostalgia and laughter.

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Carolyn Babin

Four Stars

Reviewed in Canada 🇨🇦 on May 8, 2015

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Purchased for my husband who is a silent movie and old movie buff - he loves it

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dan hopkins

The humour wasn't as good as l thought it would be.

Reviewed in Canada 🇨🇦 on December 2, 2022

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The reviews I read on line about the Marx brothers didn't match the hype, the movie was probably very good for the time. I also didn't know it was a musical film which I'm not very interested in.

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Bruce C. McConnell

great deal

Reviewed in Canada 🇨🇦 on March 8, 2017

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great old classic DVD , good price & fast delivery .

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Kerry Kaminski

I bought the disc because I already love the movie

Reviewed in Canada 🇨🇦 on October 6, 2014

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I bought the disc because I already love the movie. The quality was OK, but seeing it on TCM offers better quality. Still the best Marx Brothers movie in my opinion.

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what did I do

Reviewed in Canada 🇨🇦 on March 6, 2014

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What did I do buying this film. Not a funny film just grindingly long. It had its funny moments and scenes though that are very good.

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Jeffrey Ellis

Hail, Hail Freedonia....

Reviewed in Canada 🇨🇦 on January 29, 2002

Duck Soup. Whenever I'm feeling depressed, this is the video I pop in the VCR whenever I'm feeling depressed because I know that as long as I live in a world where I can watch the Marx Brothers, there is no darkness that can't be ridiculed. The Marx Brothers were perhaps the funniest performers to ever appear in American film and Duck Soup, directed by Leo McCarey who had a far greater talent for comedy than their previous director Sam Wood ("You cannot make a directer out of Wood," as one of them -- I always chose to believe it was famously silent Harpo -- once quipped), is their funniest film. Of course, Duck Soup was the only one of their early films to be reviled by critics and ignored by audiences. Perhaps it was the subject matter, which still remains relavent today and can still lead to a few uncomfortable laughs as a result. Duck Soup is the Marx Brothers film that finds Groucho playing Rufus T. Firefly, the happily uncouth man who has -- through the usual hilarious courting of impassive Margaret Dumont -- become the ruler of Freedonia. Freedonia's enemies recruit to spies to undermine Firefly -- Chico and Harpo Marx. While Harpo torments lemonade salesman Egdar Buchanan, steals anything he can get his hands on, and eventually ends up sleeping with a horse, Chico is appointed to the cabinet by Groucho. Meanwhile, fourth Marx Brother Zeppo makes a few fleeting appearances as Groucho's private secretary. As usual, nobody seems to know what to do with Zeppo but they seem happy to have him around. Anyway, this film contains many classic bits that will be familiar to fans of the Marx Brothers and comedy in general. Though all have been endlessly redone by imitators, they all remain hilarious in the hands of the originals. Along with Groucho and Chico's vaudevillian wordplay, this film also contains Harpo at his most wild. Grinning like a demonic child, he steals everything he can find, revels in destroying random objects, and produces almost anything from the depths of his baggy trenchcoat. It is this film that firmly establishes the central Marx Brothers relationship -- Chico hangs out with Harpo while Groucho tolerates Harpo so he can hang out with Chico. In what made this film rather controversial for its time (and probably still would if it weren't now accepted as both a comedy classic and -- quite wrongly in my opinion -- a relic from a previous age), the film ultimately builds up to Groucho declaring war on his enemies. (Capped off by a riotous song in which the four Marx Brothers lead the country in happily singing "We're going to war!") The film ends on the battlefield and, in a rather jarring scene, actual footage of charging World War I soldiers is mixed with the Marx Brothers holed up in one besieged cabin. For a world still haunted by the slaughter of the Great War and on the verge of World War II, this was pretty strong stuff as were comments like Groucho saying the war will end because he's only rented the battlefield for a week. It also shows that the humor of the Marx Brothers was, for all of its seeming elitism and disregard for all other sensibilities, a truly populist expression. Through their ridicule, the Marx Brothers attacked the forces of the pompous and the humorless and never was that attack more potent and subversive than in Duck Soup. A classic film and, most importantly, proof that wild comedy need not be stupid comedy.

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Hail, Hail the Marx Brothers! The Marxist view on war

Reviewed in Canada 🇨🇦 on October 15, 2000

My favorite Marx Brothers movie is "A Night at the Opera," but this political satire, which was banned in Italy by Mussolini, is a very close second. It is definitely the best (and last) Marx Brothers movie with Zeppo, for what that is worth. As Groucho later pointed out, Zeppo's roles as the group's straight man were thankless. It was not that Zeppo lacked talent, but rather that he had three older brothers.
"In Duck Soup," the mythical nation of Freedonia is in trouble and Mrs. Teasdale (Margaret Dumont) insists that the reigns of power be turned over to Rufus T. Firefly (Groucho). Ambassador Trentino (Louis Calhern) of the neighboring country of Sylvania employs a couple of spies, Chicolini (Chico) and Pinky (Harpo), to shadow Firefly. Oh, and Firefly has a secretary, Bob Rolland (Zeppo). Many of the most famous sequences by the Brothers Marx are found in this film: (1) The mirror sequence between Groucho and Harpo (if it had been Groucho and Chico instead Groucho would have asked "Are you my reflection" and Chico would have answered "Sure"); (2) Harpo's encounter with street vendor Edgar Kennedy, master of the slow-burn (" "); (3) The "We're Going to War" take off on 1930s musicals ("They've got guns, we've got guns, all God's chil'en got guns"); (4) Groucho offering Chico the position of Secretary of War ("Sold!"); (5) Harpo offering Grouch a ride in the sidecar of his motorcyle ("This is the third trip I've taken today and I still haven't gone anywhere"); (6) Zeppo introducing the new leader of Freedonia, Rufus T. Fireflay ("Whatever it is, I'm against it."); and much, much more, including the lovely Rachel Torres as the lovely Vera Marcal!
"Duck Soup" was helped by several factors. With director Leo McCarey the Marx Brothers finally had a first rate director who understood how to stage and shoot the action. The Bert Kalmar and Harry Ruby screenplay does one of the better jobs of integrating the various comic routines into the overall story. After an absence of two films Margaret Dumont was back where she belonged, trying to stay above the insanity with no success whatsoever. Louis Calhern is arguably the ideal villain for the Marx Brothers because in scene after scene he plays it absolutely straight, without losing his dignity or becoming laughable (similar to the marvelous job by Kitty Carlisle in "A Night at the Opera").
Final tidbit: When the town of Fredonia, New York complained about its name being used in the film (the extra "e" did not matter for some reason," Groucho shot back: "Change the name of your town, it's hurting our picture." And, as always, please remember that the correct pronunciation of Leonard's stage name is "Chick-o" not "Cheek-o." The man liked the ladies and was not a young Hispanic male.

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Tony Bradley

Marx brothers absolute masterpiece!

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on October 8, 2017

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This brilliant satire has stood the test of time exceptionally well. So much of the humour is relevant today. Groucho Marx clearly believed that leaders of capitalistic are by and large not tuned into the real world. However, the irony is, that Grouchos character, the incredibly funny Rufus T Firefly is himself clearly a couple of sandwiches short of the proverbial picnic! So many wonderful scenes in this masterpiece. The mirror scene just about tops them all. What a film! My only criticism is that we don't get to see Harpo playing the harp beautifully, or Chico playing wonderfully on the piano. Many critics felt that the musical interludes of Harpo and Chico kind of spoiled the pace of the films. My opinion differs. I believe the musical interludes provided the viewer with a chance to catch breath. Grouchos quick fire retorts and observations on life take (and took), some digesting. This is why repeated viewings of their films gives new experience to the viewer. Each gag can take on a different meaning entirely. If only they made movies like this today! Alas, I think political correctedness would censure some of the satire. A final word has to be said for the wonderful Margaret Dumont. What a foil to Groucho! And how she kept a straight face at times defies belief. I say to anyone who has not seen this film, or those unfamiliar with the Marx brothers, buy this film. You will not regret it. Never, ever fails to put a smile on my face, English and strait laced or not.

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LONDON NINJA.

Comic masterpiece

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on June 30, 2016

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This film was made the same years Hitler came to power, 1933.
Four Jewish Brothers (The Marx Bros) star in this satire on politics,
and 83 years later, it is still funny and relevant.

The reason I tell you the Marx Bros were Jewish, is because there
is an old jewish saying that says, "Humour is to be human". I don't
think Hitler had much in the way of "funny bones", and after all these
years, it is The Marx Brothers who are still loved, and the ideas and
politics of fascism, are hated. What I am getting at, is Duck Soup
will live on forever, and whenever a tin-pot dictator wants to start
a war, we have this movie to remind us how ridicules war is...

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Lizzie Mann

Marx Bros at their best

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on October 7, 2017

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In my opinion, the best of the early Marx Brothers films. It's the usual mix of Groucho's wisecracks, Harpo's physical comedy and Chicco's cheek plus moments that remind me of Monty Python. Add to that a send up of politicians (nothing really changes - listen to the lyrics of Groucho's song 'Land of the Free') all at a frenetic pace and you have something that will cheer you up no end. It has been edited roughly so sometimes the storyline is a bit jumpy but if you just concentrate on the comedy, it doesn't seem to matter.

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Jonathan Ward

Welcome To Freedonia

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on June 14, 2019

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Duck Soup is a classic Marx Brothers movie and one of their biggest successes. I believe the most cleverest scene to be the pretend mirror scene where Chico copies Groucho superbly well as if the mirror really was there. Comedy genius. Hilarious humour from one of the best comedy teams of all time. Well recommended.

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Mr B

Maybe it caught me on a bad day..

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on June 17, 2022

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I bought this because it was supposed to be one of the top 100 comedies. But I just couldn't get into it. Don't think I laughed once.

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