Duck Soup

All “hail Freedonia!” On the verge of financial ruin, this tiny nation ousts its leader, replacing him with Rufus T. Firefly, Groucho Marx in the throes of total comic anarchy. Cleverly insert brothers Harpo and Chico, one a spy for neighboring Sylvania who never talks, the other a spy who can't stop talking, and Zeppo as the fearless leader's sidekick, and you have a savagely silly soup you can't duck. The brotherhood of Marx was never zanier than in this absurd antiwar story, replete with the Palaces of Power, bilious battlefields, and the brazen use of laughing gas.

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