The Marx Brothers
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Whisky Guy
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The Marx Brothers
Any of you folks know their movies well? I've been meaning to watch one of their movies for a long time and want to know what a good one is to rent.
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Re: The Marx Brothers
Any of the first five; The Coconuts, Animal Crackers, Monkey Business, Horse Feathers and Duck Soup are good. These earliest feature films have all of the 4 performing Marx Bros; Groucho, Harpo, Chico and Zeppo (a fifth brother, Gummo, was their booking agent). Not long after Duck Soup, Zeppo, who was never more than a sidekick/straight-man in these films, retired from acting and joined Gummo in the booking business.Whisky Guy wrote:Any of you folks know their movies well? I've been meaning to watch one of their movies for a long time and want to know what a good one is to rent.
Of their later films, A Night At The Opera and A Day At The Races are the best.
Their humor is somewhat slapstick and may seem rather dated; complete with vaudeville theater-props and makeup. But of the comedy-ensemble genre of film, these movies are considered classics.
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"I wanted a shark high on crack dumped into a piranha tank! I wanted college AD's to pull their human faces off, then dive at each other's lizard throats!" -- waahoohah
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q01p7k6T ... e=youtu.be
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Whisky Guy
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Re: The Marx Brothers
Thanks! I really like old "dated" movies like that. Its where a lot of today's saying and cliches came from. My better half and I have a pack of old horror movies, all black and white, and its cool to see where much of stuff from today came from.
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peetie44
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Re: The Marx Brothers
Typical (from The Coconuts):Whisky Guy wrote:Thanks! I really like old "dated" movies like that. Its where a lot of today's saying and cliches came from. My better half and I have a pack of old horror movies, all black and white, and its cool to see where much of stuff from today came from.
"Room such-and-such (forgot the room # in the film ;^) wants some ice water sent up."
"Send 'em up some onions -- that'll make their 'eyes water'. "
"Man i once bought $101 worth of insect candy because it was free shipping on orders over 100 bucks." -- ThirstyDrunk
"I wanted a shark high on crack dumped into a piranha tank! I wanted college AD's to pull their human faces off, then dive at each other's lizard throats!" -- waahoohah
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q01p7k6T ... e=youtu.be
"I wanted a shark high on crack dumped into a piranha tank! I wanted college AD's to pull their human faces off, then dive at each other's lizard throats!" -- waahoohah
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q01p7k6T ... e=youtu.be
Re: The Marx Brothers
Love, love, love the Marx Brothers. Get yer tootsie frootsie ice cream!
Drink your fucking drink, how about that? Stop the fuckin' presses, isn't it genius??
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Re: The Marx Brothers
I asked for a flat bottom, but the girl at the boathouse didn't have one.
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For their next number, the band will play "Somewhere My Love Lies Sleeping", with a male chorus.
also,
For their next number, the band will play "Somewhere My Love Lies Sleeping", with a male chorus.
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Re: The Marx Brothers
You can see Duck Soup on veoh.com and Animal Crackers on google video.
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Re: The Marx Brothers
Marx Bros marathon on TCM right now.
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