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The Marx Brothers are at their zany best in the uproarious parody of college life, Horse Feathers! Groucho is Professor Wagstaff, the fun-loving new president of Huxley College, where he tries to help his son (Zeppo!) finally graduate after 12 years by arranging to “buy” (or more accurately, “kidnap”) professional football players for an upcoming big game against rival Darwin University. The plan takes an unexpected twist, however, when a bootlegger (Chico) and a dogcatcher (Harpo) are mistaken for the athletes and accidentally hired instead. Featuring all their trademark lunacy, including a climactic football sequence that has to be seen to be believed, and a hilarious screenplay co-written by S.J. Perelman, whose literate wordplay makes this a special treat, this crazed Marx Brothers comedy co-stars Thelma Todd, David Landau, Nat Pendleton and Robert Grieg (for once not cast as a butler)! (Dir. by Norman Z. McLeod, 1932, USA, 68 mins., Not Rated)