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Duck Soup
The Marx Brothers reached peaks of anarchic brilliance in this comedy masterpiece, which burst upon audiences four years after their primitive feature debut in The Cocoanuts. Groucho, Chico, Harpo and the uncharismatic Zeppo — in his final screen role — are all entangled in a runaway satire that finds Groucho as a Ruritanian leader going to war because he has paid a month's advance rent on the battlefield. What helps make this the funniest of the Marx Brothers pictures — besides the absence of the romantic interludes that dogged later outings — are the exchanges between Groucho and Margaret Dumont's stately matriarch, plus a stunningly surreal mirror sequence.
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