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Duck Soup (U)

Comedy, Musical

Rufus T. Firefly is named president/dictator of bankrupt Freedonia and declares war on neighboring Sylvania over the love of wealthy Mrs. Teasdale.


The critical consensus

Clowning around has seldom been done better.

*****Emma Simmonds, The List, 12/01/2015

The movie vaudeville of the Marx brothers was perhaps never so inspired, and surely never as brazen, as in their surreal satire of tinpot nationalism and political pomposity in 1930s Europe.

*****Peter Bradshaw, The Guardian, 15/01/2015

This joke isn't funny any more.

***(*)(*)David Jenkins, Little White Lies, 15/01/2015


Features about Duck Soup (U)

A whole lotta relephants: the enduring delights of Duck Soup

Craig Brown, The Guardian, 09/01/2015

How the Marx Brothers hold their appeal and influence

John McKie, BBC, 13/01/2015

Where and when?

Edinburgh Filmhouse, Edinburgh from Friday January 16, 2015, until Monday January 19, 2015. More info: www.filmhousecinema.com

Glasgow Film Theatre, Glasgow from Sunday January 18, 2015, until Tuesday January 20, 2015. More info: http://www.glasgowfilm.org/theatre/

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