SummaryQuincy Adams Wagstaff, the new president of Huxley University, accidentally hires bumblers Baravelli and Pinky to help his school win the big football game against the rival Darwin University.
Directed By:Norman Z. McLeod
Written By:Bert Kalmar, Harry Ruby, S.J. Perelman, Will B. Johnstone, Arthur Sheekman
Horse Feathers
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The Marx Brothers in one of their messiest, sloppiest, greatest Paramount comedies. [27 Feb 2015, p.C5]
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The madcap Marxes, in one of their maddest screen frolics. The premise of Groucho Marx as the college prexy and his three aides and abettors putting Huxley College on the grid-iron map promises much and delivers more.
88
In their cockeyed prime, the Marx Brothers dismantle higher education by taking over Huxley College and setting it on a collision course with football arch-rival Darwin. [30 Dec 2005, p.C4]
80
The movie is packed with brilliant, logic-chopping dialogue and surreal visual gags that, though familiar and often quoted, come up fresh at each viewing, none funnier than Harpo getting money from a phone as if it were a fruit machine.
80
The Brothers have never been so chaotic or so aggressively funny.
80
Some of the fun is even more reprehensible than the doings of these clowns in previous films, but there is no denying that their antics and their patter are helped along by originality and ready wit.
70
This 1932 release was the first Marx film to take on the Depression, and the brothers manage to satirize everything from education to prostitution and bootlegging.
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Jan 19, 2025
5
Otra película de los hermanos Marx que no me causa gracia. Se mantienen, por supuesto, el tocar instrumentos: no pueden obviarlo, el piano, el arpa y ahora también la guitarra, y mucho más incisivos con las canciones. Y es que el humor en general apela a la cantidad y no a la calidad; es decir, hacen infinidad de bromas o chistes desde el sarcasmo hasta el juego de palabras, pero la mayoría son sin gracia. Pero obviamente, por probabilidad, hay alguno que es divertido, pero no vale la pena ver una hora de película para escuchar 5 chistes; y obviamente el trasfondo solo está ahí para decir muchos más chistes nada más, pero a decir verdad esto no es pecado de esta película sino en general. Otra mala película, realmente espero ver una que esté decente.
Production Company:
- Paramount Pictures
Release Date:Aug 19, 1932
Duration:1 h 8 m
Rating:TV-G
Tagline:THE WILDEST PICTURE PANIC IN SCREEN COMEDY HISTORY! (print ad - Lubbock Morning Avalanche - Lindsey Theatre - Lubbock, Texas - Feb. 9, 1938 - all caps)
Awards
Photoplay Awards
• 2 Wins & 2 Nominations
Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror Films, USA
• 2 Nominations
