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Bookmark this pageHorse Feathers (1932)
Director: Norman Z McLeod
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From Time Out Film Guide
The title means bunk or baloney, a fitting epithet for the Brothers' second screen original for Paramount, where the lads and their writers threw sanity to the winds with a wildly disorganised parody of academic life. Groucho is president of Huxley College, where no student appears to be under thirty-five. Chief subjects on the curriculum seem to be football, sex, the delivery of heinous puns (haddock/headache) and the refurbishing of old vaudeville routines (the biology lecture). The Brothers have never been so chaotic or so aggressively funny.Author: GB
Cast & crew
Director: Norman Z McLeod
Cast: The Marx Brothers, Thelma Todd, David Landau, Robert Greig, Nat Pendleton, Reginald Barlow full cast
Genre(s): Comedy
Duration: 70 mins
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