Film Club @ The Music Hall Loft - Duck Soup (1933)
Date and Time
Tuesday Feb 16, 2016
7:00 PM - 9:00 PM EST
Tuesday, February 16 | 7PM
Location
The Music Hall Loft
131 Congress Street, Portsmouth
Fees/Admission
$15
Description
Don’t pity their mother Minnie Marx: she probably died laughing. These zany brothers exited the vaudeville stage for Hollywood in 1929 and became comic legends. In their fifth and best movie, a wealthy dowager, played by the redoubtable Margaret Dumont, recruits Groucho, Harpo, and Chico to save the bankrupt tin-pot republic of Freedonia. In a breathless 70 minutes, Minnie’s boys skewer dictators, authoritarian governments, diplomacy, and the law so mercilessly that the film was banned in Italy by Mussolini. Ranked #5 on the AFI’s list of the funniest American films of all time. Part of The Music Hall Film Club.
NR • 1h 9m • US
PLUS: A classic short by another vaudevillean-turned-idol-of-the-comic-screen, W.C. Fields!
