[78-L] Duck, Chico! (was: Lennick's holiday torture)

[Mark Bardenwerper]

On 12/26/2011 11:37, Malcolm Rockwell wrote:
> ...and, oh yeah!
> Last night I watched Duck Soup on TCM for the first time all the way
> through and was unimpressed. Osborne jacked it up as the greatest Marx
> Brothers film ( the last one with Zeppo in it) ever made. It was a study
> in antic humor but the jokes were stale, as if they'd been done one time
> too many, and the musical numbers far overblown. In the film's defense,
> it was the Marx Brothers! IMNSHO, the funniest bits contained Edgar
> Kennedy, the stooge who ran the second cart in front of the palace.
> Chico and Harpo were in full glory and Kennedy was perfectly cast.
> How does the "Hail, Freedonia" anthem end? Every time the chorus got
> that far they seem to be mumbling and I never could figure it out. Maybe
> that was done on purpose? It would serve me right if it was.
>
>
You can leave in a taxi. If you can't, leave in a huff. If that's too 
soon, you can leave in a minute and a huff. You know you haven't stopped 
talking since I came here. You must have been vaccinated with a 
phonograph needle.

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