![]() ![]() Disc Three holds Duck Soup and bonus features. Disc Two has Monkey Business and Horse Feathers. ![]() The above linked reviews detail each specific film's A/V presentation and film-specific bonuses (including each film's feature commentary track).ĭisc One in the set holds The Cocoanuts and Animal Crackers. Universal has gifted fans with The Marx Brothers' Blu-ray debut in the three-disc The Marx Brothers Silver Screen Collection Restored Blu-ray Edition. Below find each of the Paramount films reviewed, with details on the Blu-ray discs:ĭistributor: Universal Studios Home Entertainment Universal's new three-disc The Marx Brothers Silver Screen Collection Restored Blu-ray Edition offers the best chance yet on home video to appreciate the Brothers and their brand of anarchic, sometimes surreal comedy: cigar-chomping, wisecracking shyster Groucho dullwitted con-man Chico, clowning idiot savant Harpo and straight man Zeppo, sometimes employed as a romantic lead. The boys ended up making another run of pictures at MGM, but despite a couple of big winners there under Irving Thalberg ( A Night at the Opera and A Day at the Races), the Paramount years found them at their purest and their funniest. Paramount enlisted the Brothers to recreate their Broadway hits The Cocoanuts and Animal Crackers before moving on to mostly original material with Monkey Business, Horse Feathers, and Duck Soup. With nearly three decades of performing experience and comic raw material at their disposal, the Brothers were ready. Though the Marxes had hit middle age by the time Hollywood christened them movie stars, they were still in the right place at the right time to parlay their stage successes into screen stardom, as Hollywood had only recently coverted to sound production and was hungry for vocally skilled performers and musical entertainment. These were the Marx Brothers when their fame exploded as movie stars at Paramount. ![]()
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