Directed by Victor Heerman • 1930 • United States
Starring Groucho Marx, Harpo Marx, Chico Marx
“I shot an elephant in my pajamas; how he got in my pajamas, I don’t know,” quips Groucho Marx’s celebrated African explorer Captain Geoffrey T. Spaulding, who’s just returned to the States to inflict comic carnage on the highfalutin party of society matron Mrs. Rittenhouse (Margaret Dumont). He’s joined, of course, by Harpo, Chico, and Zeppo, who perform a parade of memorable musical numbers in this off-the-wall adaptation of the brothers’ 1928 Broadway hit.
Please be advised: this film contains offensive racial stereotypes.
Directed by Norman Z. McLeod • 1931 • United States
Starring Groucho Marx, Harpo Marx, Chico Marx
The Marx Brothers’ third screen outing—and their first to feature an original script not adapted from one of their Broadway shows—finds the boys playing a quartet of stowaways who get mixed up with ...
Directed by Norman Z. McLeod • 1932 • United States
Starring Groucho Marx, Harpo Marx, Chico Marx
The title is 1930s slang for nonsense—and that’s just what the marvelous Marx Brothers deliver in this zany tale of newly elected college president Quincy Adams Wagstaff (Groucho Marx, declaring “wh...
Directed by Leo McCarey • 1933 • United States
Starring Groucho Marx, Harpo Marx, Chico Marx
The marvelous Marx Brothers are at their anarchic best in this wildly hilarious tour de force of comic invention. When Groucho’s Rufus T. Firefly, president of the bankrupt nation of Freedonia, picks a f...