Film Forum

U.S., 1931
Directed by Norman Z. McLeod
Written by S. J. Perelman, Arthur Sheekman
With Four Marx Brothers (Groucho, a New Yorker contributor, plus Harpo, Chico, Zeppo), Thelma Todd 
Approx. 78 min. DCP.

“You call this a party? The beer is warm and the women are cold!” The Four Marx Brothers — Groucho, Chico, Harpo, and Zeppo — stow away on a Deco ocean liner, chase blondes (including peerless foil Thelma Todd), catch crooks, and imitate Maurice Chevalier, in the team’s first original screenplay.

Presented with support from the Ada Katz Fund for Literature in Film and the Robert Jolin Osborne Endowed Fund for American Classic Cinema of the 1930s, ’40s, and ’50s

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“A hymn to anarchy and whole-hearted revolt.”
– Antonin Artaud