Films with: Dumont, Margaret

Animal crackers

A comedy classic that loosely centers around a painting stolen during a house party held by a wealthy society woman. Introduces Groucho's most famous character, Captain Spaulding.

DVD 808

Cocoanuts

Based on their Broadway hit. The film--one of the first full talkies--takes place in a hotel with owner Groucho out to grab every dollar.

DVD 8161

Duck soup

As Prime Minister Firefly of Freedonia, Groucho soon reduces the kingdom to shambles. Harpo and Chico are secret agents disguised as peanut vendors and Zeppo is Firefly's secretary.

DVD 1150

Go West The big store /

In Go West, it's 1870 and the Marx Brothers are out to get rich in Dead Man's Gulch. In The big store, the brothers reduce an enormous inventory of upscale merchandise into a multilevel disaster as they pursue and evade villains via bicycles, skates, unicycles, broad jumps, shipping chutes, elevator cables, high wires, pole vaults and pseudo-Tarzan chandelier swinging.

DVD 3629

Never give a sucker an even break

An episodic comedy with song, slapstick, and thumbnail sketches. In one sketch, Fields is a Russian peasant sampling fermented goat's milk; elsewhere, he drops 2,000 feet from a cliff. There is also an automobile chase similar to vintage Keystone Cops style.

DVD 2738

Room service At the circus /

Room Service: A cash-strapped theatrical troup tries to find a backer and keep from being thrown out of their hotel. At the Circus: The brothers try to keep the cash-strapped circus running by finding a backer.

DVD 3628