The Marx Brothers - Favourite Scene.

Chris75_
Chris75_ Online Community Member Posts: 4,842 Championing
edited January 30 in Coffee lounge

Does anyone have a favourite Marx Brothers scene? My all time favourite comes from the 1935 movie "A Night At The Opera". I can hardly believe it was made 90 years ago.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rCyR113uZ_o

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  • Rosie_Scope
    Rosie_Scope Posts: 7,994 Scope Online Community Coordinator

    Haha that's great @Chris75_! I have (ashamedly) never watched any Marx Brothers! Are there any others in particular you'd recommend?

  • Chris75_
    Chris75_ Online Community Member Posts: 4,842 Championing
    edited January 30

    A Day At The Races is hilarious, tbh, they all are. Obviously some racial stereotyping in the 1930s US, but this is the Jim Crow era after all.

    The long running interactions between Groucho and Margaret Dumont, they are pretty special. She was the comic foil in many films.

  • Santosha12
    Santosha12 Online Community Member Posts: 3,618 Championing
    https://forum.scope.org.uk/discussion/comment/1098481#Comment_1098481

    I don't watch many films but 'Duck Soup' was very funny. Groucho says to a lady something like where is your husband; she says he died, Groucho replies 'maybe he's just using that as an excuse? did he leave you any money? Answer the second question first'. And then 'can't you see I love you'.

    My ex-husband was very good at recounting exact lines from films especially Al Pacino (Scarface) and Papillon, plus many Marx Brothers films.

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