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 “whatever it is, I’m against it!”), who must produce a winning football team in order to save his job. But when he inadvertently recruits the wrong guys (Harpo and Chico), comic chaos ensues. Among the highlights are the inventively recurring renditions of the musical number “Everyone Says I Love You.”
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...
Directed by Sam Wood • 1935 • United States
Starring Groucho Marx, Chico Marx, Harpo Marx
“You can’t fool me. There ain’t no Sanity Clause!” The legendary Marx Brothers take riotous aim at the pomposity of high society in one of the funniest movies ever made. Groucho Marx’s seedy promoter Otis B...
Directed by Sam Wood • 1937 • United States
Starring Groucho Marx, Chico Marx, Harpo Marx
The Marx Brothers come to the rescue to save a small-town sanitarium from a ruthless businessman by entering a derby—betting everything on a horse that wants to jump instead of run! In his favorite role, Gr...