SLIGHT GAG SPOILER
I love this film ... not because it's their bes (aaah Monkey Business, aah Duck Soup, aaah Horse Feathers) but because, after the steady decline of their MGM films, sinking to the nadir of The Big Store, they were able to bounce back to something like a REAL Marx Bros film.
Sure it looks a bit shoddy, and some of the gags are weak, but Harpo has some great sight gags, Groucho has some one-liners worthy of him, and even Chico is back to being the shifty, untrustworthy conman he was in the early films ("Hey boss, you gotta woman in there?") instead of Harpo's milksop nursemaid that MGM tried to turn him into.
There are too priceless exchanges involving Groucho ("I'm Beatrice Reiner, I stop at the hotel." "I'm Ronald Kornblow, I stop at nothing" and his humiliation of the pompous Mr Smythe, plus Harpo's equally hilarious demolition of Beatrice, make this well worth watching. AND IT'S OUT ON DVD.
I love this film ... not because it's their bes (aaah Monkey Business, aah Duck Soup, aaah Horse Feathers) but because, after the steady decline of their MGM films, sinking to the nadir of The Big Store, they were able to bounce back to something like a REAL Marx Bros film.
Sure it looks a bit shoddy, and some of the gags are weak, but Harpo has some great sight gags, Groucho has some one-liners worthy of him, and even Chico is back to being the shifty, untrustworthy conman he was in the early films ("Hey boss, you gotta woman in there?") instead of Harpo's milksop nursemaid that MGM tried to turn him into.
There are too priceless exchanges involving Groucho ("I'm Beatrice Reiner, I stop at the hotel." "I'm Ronald Kornblow, I stop at nothing" and his humiliation of the pompous Mr Smythe, plus Harpo's equally hilarious demolition of Beatrice, make this well worth watching. AND IT'S OUT ON DVD.