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Tuesday, December 23, 2008

Animal Crackers

Animal Crackers. 1930 Paramount Pictures (now owned by, and released to DVD by Universal Pictures).
Starring: The Marx Brothers (Groucho, Chico, Harpo, Zeppo), Margaret Dumont, Lillian Roth
Director: Victor Heerman
Buy Animal Crackers as part of the Marx Brothers Silver Screen Collection at Amazon.

A musical comedy film starring the brothers Marx. Groucho is the African explorer Captain Geoffrey T. Spaulding, and he is the guest of honor at a party at the estate of society matron Mrs. Rittenhouse (Dumont). While the party is happening, a valuable painting is stolen.

This movie also has two of Groucho's signature songs "Hello, I Must Be Going" and "Hooray for Captain Spaulding"; the latter song was used as the theme for You Bet Your Life.

Also, the American Film Institute listed a line of dialogue from the movie, "One morning I shot an elephant in my pajamas. How he got in my pajamas, I don't know", as number 53 in their list of the 100 Greatest Movie Quotes of All Time.

Highly, highly recommended.