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Animal Crackers

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Original title

Animal Crackers

Year

1930

Running time

98 min.

Country

United States

Director

Victor Heerman

Screenwriter

Morrie Ryskind

Cast

Music

Bert Kalmar, Harry Ruby

Cinematography

George J. Folsey (B&W)

Producer

Paramount Pictures

Genre

Comedy

Synopsis

Captain Spaulding, the noted explorer, returns from Africa and attends a gala party held by Mrs. Rittenhouse. A painting displayed at that party is stolen, and the Marxes help recover it. Well, maybe 'help' isn't quite the word I was looking for--this is the Marx Brothers, after all...

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Critics' reviews

"One of the five essential Paramount comedies."

Donald Liebenson: Entertainment Weekly
"It was a Broadway musical comedy, slightly adapted, and filmed in Astoria--and it looks stagey. But the film is too joyous for cavilling."

Pauline Kael: The New Yorker
"Exceedingly stagy and theatrical, even by 1930's standards, but is nevertheless very funny and highly enjoyable."

TV Guide
"A further example of amusing nonsense."

Mordaunt Hall: The New York Times
"'The Marx Brothers' second film and one of their best, satirising the rich at play as they infiltrate a society party and beome involved with a stolen painting."

Time Out

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