Duck Soup
War is swell...when the Marx Brothers are in it. They'll be out of the trenches by Christmas...if the food doesn't improve!
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- Comedy
- War
Overview
Rufus T. Firefly is named president/dictator of bankrupt Freedonia and declares war on neighboring Sylvania over the love of wealthy Mrs. Teasdale.
Keywords
- spy
- absurd
- fictitious country
- siege
- musical
- black and white
- widow
- slapstick comedy
- cigar smoking
- dictator
- ambassador
- witty
- pre-code
- dowager
- lemonade
- geofiction
Details
- Status
- Released
- Release date
- November 12, 1933
- Original language
- English
- Spoken languages
- English
- Countries
- United States of America
- Production
- Paramount,Paramount Pictures
- Cast
- Groucho Marx,Harpo Marx,Chico Marx,Zeppo Marx,Margaret Dumont,Raquel Torres,Louis Calhern,Edmund Breese,Leonid Kinskey,Charles Middletonand 24 more
- Director
- Leo McCarey
- Producer
- Herman J. Mankiewicz
- Cinematography
- Henry Sharp
- Music
- John Leipold
- Budget
- Not recorded
- Revenue
- Not recorded
- IMDb
- tt0023969