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Horse Feathers (1932)

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Reviews Counted:17

Fresh:16

Rotten:1

Average Rating:8.1/10

Runtime: 68 mins

Genre: Comedies

US Box Office: $0

Synopsis: The Marx Brothers parody college life in this gag-filled, fast-paced comedy. The fast-talking new president of Huxley College needs to scrounge up some top-flight ringers for his football team, but... The Marx Brothers parody college life in this gag-filled, fast-paced comedy. The fast-talking new president of Huxley College needs to scrounge up some top-flight ringers for his football team, but ends up with a bootlegger and a mute dog catcher instead. More laughs than most comedies (and smart laughs, at that), this script, coscripted by satirist SJ Perelman, is humor at its most clever. [More]

Starring: Marx Brothers, Thelma Todd, David Landau, Robert Greig

Starring: Marx Brothers, Thelma Todd, David Landau, Robert Greig, Florine McKinney, Nat Pendleton, Reginald Barlow

Director: Norman Z. McLeod

Director: Norman Z. McLeod
Screenwriter: Bert Kalmar, Harry Ruby, S. J. Perelman, William B. Johnstone
Producer: Herman J. Mankiewicz

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Full Review Source: Variety | comment Comment
10/18/08
Variety
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Funny Marx Bros classic, featuring four brothers on a tear at college.

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02/18/08
Steve Crum
Steve Crum
Video-Reviewmaster.com

Under the loose but capable direction of Norman Z. McLeod, the Marxes leap from one lunatic set piece to the next. Wagstaff talks over, below and around everyone he meets.

Full Review Source: Arizona Daily Star | comment Comment
10/29/06
Phil Villarreal
Phil Villarreal
Arizona Daily Star

...[there's an] overall feeling of pointlessness at work here.

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02/28/06
David Nusair
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02/09/06
Derek Adams
Derek Adams
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01/28/06
Mordaunt Hall
Mordaunt Hall
New York Times
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Witty, funny and great.

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12/12/05
Cole Smithey
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10/18/05
Christopher Null
Christopher Null
Filmcritic.com

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08/31/05
Jeffrey Westhoff
Jeffrey Westhoff
Northwest Herald (Crystal Lake, IL)

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08/10/05
Emanuel Levy
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06/28/05
Nell Minow
Nell Minow
Movie Mom at Yahoo! Movies

An anarchic parody of college life.

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04/08/05
Dennis Schwartz
Dennis Schwartz
Ozus' World Movie Reviews

The grandfather in spirit and fact of both Tex Avery and Billy Wilder.

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01/12/05
Walter Chaw
Walter Chaw
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11/23/04
Rumsey Taylor
Rumsey Taylor
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Swordfish! "Everyone Says I Love You!" One of the funniest of the early Marx films; a crazy quilt of puns and gags.

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02/12/04
Bob Bloom
Bob Bloom
Journal and Courier (Lafayette, IN)

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08/22/03
Carol Cling
Carol Cling
Las Vegas Review-Journal

An anarchic, riotous triumph of the comic imagination.

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05/24/03
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12/02/02
Philip Martin
Philip Martin
Arkansas Democrat-Gazette

Probably the Marx Brothers' second best film

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07/30/02
Ken Hanke
Ken Hanke
Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC)

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07/27/02
Rob Vaux
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