Duck Soup
War is swell...when the Marx Brothers are in it. They'll be out of the trenches by Christmas...if the food doesn't improve!
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A frenetic, absurdist comedy that weaponizes wordplay, slapstick, and anarchic logic to mock political authority and the machinery of war itself.
Rufus T. Firefly is named president/dictator of bankrupt Freedonia and declares war on neighboring Sylvania over the love of wealthy Mrs. Teasdale.
Essence
Ensemble
Groucho Marx
Rufus T. Firefly
Harpo Marx
Pinky
Chico Marx
Chicolini
Zeppo Marx
Bob Roland
Margaret Dumont
Gloria Teasdale
Raquel Torres
Vera Marcal
Louis Calhern
Ambassador Trentino
Edmund Breese
Zander
Leonid Kinskey
Sylvanian Agitator
Charles Middleton
Prosecutor
Edgar Kennedy
Street Vendor
Edward Arnold
Politician (uncredited)
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