Category: Comedy
All Genres: Comedy, Musical
Release Year: 1933
Country: USA
Runtime: 68
Languages: English
Director: Leo McCarey
Sound: Mono
Taglines:

Youve never seen anything like it.

Writing by: Bert Kalmar - (story) and
Harry Ruby - (story)
Arthur Sheekman - (additional dialogue) and
Nat Perrin - (additional dialogue)

Produced by: Herman J. Mankiewicz - producer (uncredited)

Cast: Groucho Marx - Rufus T. Firefly
Harpo Marx - Pinky
Chico Marx - Chicolini
Zeppo Marx - Lt. Bob Roland
Margaret Dumont - Mrs. Gloria Teasdale
Raquel Torres - Vera Marcal
Louis Calhern - Ambassador Trentino of Sylvania
Edmund Breese - Zander
Leonid Kinskey - Sylvanian Agitator (as Leonid Kinsky)
Charles Middleton - Prosecutor (as Charles B. Middleton)
Edgar Kennedy - Lemonade Vendor

Music: Bert Kalmar Harry Ruby
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Plot Outline: Rufus T. Firefly is named president/dictator of bankrupt Freedonia and declares war on neighboring Sylvania over the love of wealthy Mrs. Teasdale.
Plot: The small state of Freedonia is in a financial mess, borrowing a huge sum of cash from wealthy widow Mrs. Teasdale. She insists on replacing the current president with crazy Rufus T. Firefly and mayhem erupts. To make matters worse, the neighboring state sends inept spies Chicolini and Pinky to obtain top secret information, creating even more chaos!

Crazy Credits: We know about 1 Crazy Credits. One of them reads:
At the end of the credits after "TO GOD BE THE GLORY!" a good advice follows: "FACE YOUR GIANTS!"

Goofs: We know about 22 goofs. Here comes one of them:
Continuity: Fireflys standing position while hes singing with his trousers up.

Trivia: There are 24 entries in the trivia list - like these:

• Edgar Kennedy delivers his famous "slow burn" in a minor role as a street vendor. In 1942 he played the lead in a short of his own also called Duck Soup (1942).
• This film marks the last appearance of Zeppo Marx in a Marx Brothers film.
• In the original script, Chicolini and Pinky were cousins and Bob was Fireflys son.

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Category: Comedy
All Genres: Comedy, Short
Release Year: 1927
Country: USA
Runtime: 20
Rating: 7 (0)
Languages: English
Director: Fred Guiol
Sound: Silent
Taglines:

The Ultimate Family Biography

Writing by: Arthur J. Jefferson - play "Home from the Honeymoon"
H.M. Walker - titles

Produced by: Hal Roach - producer

Cast: Stan Laurel - Hives
Oliver Hardy - Maltravers
James A. Marcus - Colonel Blood (as James Marcus)
Stuart Holmes -
William Austin - Lord Tarbotham
Madeline Hurlock - Lady Tarbotham
Bob Kortman - Forest Ranger
William Courtright - Colonel Bloods Butler

Music: Rick Tell
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Plot Outline: Pursued by forest rangers who want to press them into fire-fighting duty, Stanley and Oliver hide in...
Plot: Pursued by forest rangers who want to press them into fire-fighting duty, Stanley and Oliver hide in the home of a big-game hunter who has just left town. When they find out that the servants will be away for the weekend, they decide to stay for a while. The house is being offered for rental, and when prospective tenants come, Oliver pretends to be the owner and Stanley pretends to be a servant.

Crazy Credits: We know about 1 Crazy Credits. One of them reads:
The producer expresses his gratitude for the co-operation which he received from the cast, production personnel, newsreel companies, the General Post Office and other documentary film units during the making of this picture.

Goofs: We know about 1 goofs. Here comes one of them:
Audio/visual unsynchronized: When Larry does the belly flop off the crane, he says "I did it" after he emerges from the water, but his voice is heard before his mouth moves.

Trivia: There are 3 entries in the trivia list - like these:

• Adapted from a sketch written by Stan Laurels father.
• Stan Laurel originally cast a Roach company stock player named Syd Crossley to play Oliver Hardys part. For unknown reasons, Crossley failed to make the transition from script to screen, and the rest is history.
• The first movie in which Laurel & Hardy appear in their "Stan and Ollie" characters.

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