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| The Marx Brothers | ... | (as The Four Marx Brothers) | |
| Groucho Marx | ... | Professor Quincy Adams Wagstaff | |
| Harpo Marx | ... | Pinky | |
| Chico Marx | ... | Baravelli | |
| Zeppo Marx | ... | Frank Wagstaff | |
| Thelma Todd | ... | Connie Bailey | |
| David Landau | ... | Jennings | |
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Professor Quincy Adams Wagstaff has just been installed as the new president of Huxley College. His cavalier attitude toward education is not reserved for his son Frank, who is seeing the college widow, Connie Bailey. Frank influences Wagstaff to recruit two football players who hang out in a speakeasy, in order to beat rival school Darwin. Unfortunately, Wagstaff mistakenly hires the misfits Baravelli and Pinky. Finding out that Darwin has beaten him to the "real" players, Wagstaff enlists Baravelli and Pinky to kidnap them, which leads to an anarchic football finale. Written by Rick Gregory <rag.apa@email.apa.org>
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19 August 1932 (USA) See more »Also Known As:
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Occidental College -1600 Campus Road, Eagle Rock, Los Angeles, California, USA See more »Company Credits
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Professor Wagstaff: Did my son tell you - you had beautiful eyes?Connie: Why, yes.
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Plot (or should I say plan of attack)— Entering a college campus, the gang gets to deconstruct the whole idea of higher education.
The gags fly faster than speeding bullets. There's no real let-up, not even for hasty romantic interludes with Zeppo and Todd. It's like the boys have a hundred pages of material to squeeze into 70-minutes. Harpo's got more to do than usual, even a harp solo, while Groucho is at his caustic best with a zillion one-liners. I did miss his usual foil, Margaret Dumont, who should have been lurking somewhere in the faculty lounge. Instead, as a college president, he gets to insult anything collegiate, including America's unofficial national religion-- football. And check out that big game that looks more like Ben Hur than a sports contest. But what I really liked was Thelma Todd in the slinkiest gowns this side of Jean Harlow. And what a fine comedienne she was; too bad her life ended as several probing pages in Hollywood Babylon. All in all, this is the chaos brothers at their liveliest, and may cause highschoolers to rethink the whole idea of higher education.