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- 1932
- Passed
- Paramount Pictures
- 1 h 8 m
- 1932
- Passed
- Paramount Pictures
- 1 h 8 m
Summary Quincy Adams Wagstaff, the new president of Huxley University, accidentally hires bumblers Baravelli and Pinky to help his school win the big football game against the rival Darwin University.
Directed By: Norman Z. McLeod
- 1932
- Passed
- Paramount Pictures
- 1 h 8 m
- 1932
- Passed
- Paramount Pictures
- 1 h 8 m
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Generally Favorable
7.5
Summary Quincy Adams Wagstaff, the new president of Huxley University, accidentally hires bumblers Baravelli and Pinky to help his school win the big football game against the rival Darwin University.
Directed By: Norman Z. McLeod
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Metascore
Universal Acclaim
Based on 11 Critic Reviews
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The Marx Brothers in one of their messiest, sloppiest, greatest Paramount comedies. [27 Feb 2015, p.C5]
The madcap Marxes, in one of their maddest screen frolics. The premise of Groucho Marx as the college prexy and his three aides and abettors putting Huxley College on the grid-iron map promises much and delivers more.
In their cockeyed prime, the Marx Brothers dismantle higher education by taking over Huxley College and setting it on a collision course with football arch-rival Darwin. [30 Dec 2005, p.C4]
The movie is packed with brilliant, logic-chopping dialogue and surreal visual gags that, though familiar and often quoted, come up fresh at each viewing, none funnier than Harpo getting money from a phone as if it were a fruit machine.
Some of the fun is even more reprehensible than the doings of these clowns in previous films, but there is no denying that their antics and their patter are helped along by originality and ready wit.
This 1932 release was the first Marx film to take on the Depression, and the brothers manage to satirize everything from education to prostitution and bootlegging.
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Awards
Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror Films, USA
• 2 Nominations
