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Duck Soup
Duck Soup is a 1933 American pre-Code musical comedy film written by Bert Kalmar and Harry Ruby (with additional dialogue by Arthur Sheekman and Nat Perrin) and directed by Leo McCarey. Released by Paramount Pictures on November 17, 1933, it stars the four Marx Brothers (Groucho, Harpo, Chico, and Zeppo in his final film appearance) and also features Margaret Dumont, Louis Calhern, Raquel Torres and Edgar Kennedy.
Plot
Wealthy widow Gloria Teasdale is asked to give twenty million dollars to the small, financially struggling nation of Freedonia; she agrees on the condition that Rufus T. Firefly is appointed the country's leader. Meanwhile, Ambassador Trentino of neighboring Sylvania is scheming to provoke a revolution in Freedonia in order to annex it. He sends two spies, Chicolini and Pinky, to Freedonia to find out information about Firefly. To his disappointment, Chicolini and Pinky end up spying on the wrong man, but he agrees to give them another chance.
Cast
- Charles Middleton
- Chico Marx
- Dennis O'Keefe
- Edgar Kennedy
- Edmund Breese
- Edmund Mortimer
- Edward Arnold
- Edward LeSaint
- Florence Wix
- Frederic Richard Sullivan
- Groucho Marx
- Harpo Marx
- Leonid Kinskey
- Louis Calhern
- Louise Closser Hale
- Margaret Dumont
- Raquel Torres
- Sidney Bracey
- Verna Hillie
- Wade Boteler
- William Worthington
- Zeppo Marx
More details
| author | Bert Kalmar Harry Ruby |
|---|---|
| contentLocation | Europe |
| director | Leo McCarey |
| editor | LeRoy Stone |
| genre | comedy political satire |
| keywords | break food cart freedonia lose national anthem pillory scheme sing steal struggle wealthy widow |
| musicBy | John Leipold |
| producer | Herman J. Mankiewicz |
| publisher | Paramount Pictures |
| theme | black comedy dance musical comedy spy |