Animal Crackers (1930)
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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. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
- Theatrical Feature Running Time:
- 97 mins
Complete Cast:
- Groucho Marx - Capt. Jeffrey T. Spaulding
- Chico Marx - Signor Emmanuel Ravelli
- Lillian Roth - Arabella Rittenhouse
- Louis Sorin - Roscoe W. Chandler
- Margaret Irving - Mrs. Whitehead
- Robert Greig - Horace Hives
- Donald MacBride - Bit Part
- The Music Masters - Six Footmen
- Harpo Marx - The Professor
- Zeppo Marx - Horatio Jamison
- Margaret Dumont - Mrs. Rittenhouse
- Hal Thompson - John Parker
- Kathryn Reece - Grace Carpenter
- Edward Metcalf - Insp. Hennessey
- Marx Brothers
- Director(s):
- Victor Heerman
- Writer(s):
- Morris Ryskind, Bert Kalmar, Harry Ruby
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