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The Marx Brothers-Zeppo, Chico, Groucho, and Harpo-stand in a row holding rifles in a chaotic room, dressed in comic military uniforms in a scene from the 1933 film Duck Soup.
Marx Brothers in Duck Soup The Marx Brothersā€”(left to right) Zeppo, Chico, Groucho, and Harpoā€”in Duck Soup (1933), directed by Leo McCarey.

Duck Soup

film by McCarey [1933]
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Duck Soup, American screwball comedy, released in 1933, that is considered to be among the Marx Brothersā€™ best films. It is especially noted for its anarchic style and effective satirization of war. Groucho Marx played Rufus T. Firefly, the cynical, sarcastic, and money-hungry leader of a fictional country called Freedonia. Margaret Dumont, a standard in the Marx Brothersā€™ films, was once again the butt of Grouchoā€™s barbs, playing a rich dowager easily wooed by his...

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