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Horse Feathers

Encore Edition

( Catalog Number 40777 )
(1.33:1) (2 Sides) (CLV) (NTSC)

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Horse Feathers
1932 - 67 min. - Black and White
Genre: Comedy
Not Rated
Country: USA

LaserDisc Movie Storyline:
The Marx Brothers parody college life in this gag-filled, fast-paced comedy. The fast-talking new president of Huxley College needs to scrounge up some top-flight ringers for his football team, but ends up with a bootlegger and a mute dog catcher instead. More laughs than most comedies (and smart laughs, at that), this script, coscripted by satirist SJ Perelman, is humor at its most clever.

LaserDisc Movie Review:
If ever there was an archetypal Marx Brothers comedy, it was the team's 1932 offering Horse Feathers. Groucho Marx is cast as Professor Quincy Adams Wagstaff, the newest president of Huxley College. As he delivers his introductory speech before the assembled student body ("As I look out among your smiling, eager faces, I can readily understand why this college is flat on its back"), he maps out his plans for the future by singing those deathless hits Whatever It Is, I'm Against It and I Always Get My Man. He then has a powwow with his son Frank (Zeppo Marx), who has been a Huxley student for 12 years. Frank tells his old man that Huxley has had a new president every year since 1888, the year the college won its last football game. The only way to save the establishment is to hire a couple of good football players, Mullen and McHardie (Jim Pierce and Nat Pendleton), who hang out at the local speakeasy. With his usual efficiency, Professor Wagstaff signs up the wrong men for the Huxley team: Baravelli (Chico Marx), the ice man/bootlegger, and Pinky (Harpo Marx) the dog catcher. Meanwhile, gambler Jennings (David Landau), who has all his money bet on Darwin College in the upcoming Thanksgiving Day football game, instructs his girlfriend Connie Bailey (Thelma Todd), the college widow, to get her hands on Huxley's secret football signals. This leads to a frenetic four-way courtship in Connie's apartment, as Wagstaff, Baravelli, Pinky and Frank duck in and out of doors and windows to romance the heroine. Later on, Baravelli and Pinky try to kidnap Mullen and McHardie to keep them out of the Big Game, only to end up kidnapped themselves. Miraculously, all four of our heroes show up at the Huxley-Darwin game in time, achieving victory through some of the most creative cheating in gridiron history. Written by such renowned wits as S. J. Perelman, Will B. Johnstone, Bert Kalmar and Harry Ruby, Horse Feathers is a comedy smorgasbord, offering generous doses of all four Marx Brothers performing some of their best-ever material. Who could not love a film in which, just before Chico Marx launches into his obligatory piano solo, Groucho saunters up to the camera and growls "I've got to stay here, but that's no reason why you folks can't go into the lobby until this thing blows over" In addition, this is the film that introduced the semi-satirical romantic ballad Everyone Says I Love You, which was used over six decades later as the title of a Woody Allen picture. Unfortunately, current prints of Horse Feathers are incomplete, with nearly five minutes of comedy material missing; the search goes on for a pristine, uncut negative. --- Hal Erickson

The Marx Brothers' fourth film, the version of Horse Feathers that exists today is missing several minutes, making the film choppy and occasionally jarring, but there's such an abundance of inspired lunacy that it hardly matters. Feathers makes no more sense than most of the boys' films, and that's exactly the way it should be. Ostensibly a parody of the college films that had become popular at the time, Feathers is really an attack on everything conventional --- including rational moviemaking. More technically polished than Cocoanuts and Animal Crackers, it still revels in anarchy and elevates the non-sequitur as close to an art form as it can get. The movie is filled with Groucho's special brand of humor (e.g., "Why don't you go home to your wife I'll tell you what, I'll go home to your wife and, outside of the improvement, she'll never know the difference,") and features one of his signature songs, "I'm Against It," as well as the very popular "Everyone Says I Love You." Other highlights include the classic exchange involving the password "sw

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Cast for Horse Feathers

Groucho Marx - Prof. Ouincy Adams Wagstaff
Chico Marx - Barovelli
Harpo Marx - Pinky
Zeppo Marx - Frank Wagstaff
Thelma Todd - Connie Bailey
David Landau - Jennings
Florine McKinney - Peggy Carrington
James Pierce - Mullen
Reginald Barlow - Retiring President of Huxley College
Nat Pendleton - MacHardie
Edward J. Le Saint - Profs. in Wagstaff's Study
Marx Brothers
E.H. Calvert - Professor in Wagstaff's Study
Robert Craig - The Biology Professor

Crew for Horse Feathers

Norman Z. McLeod - Director
Herman Mankiewicz - Producer
Bert Kalmar - Screenwriter
S.J. Perelman - Screenwriter
Harry Ruby - Screenwriter / Composer (Music Score)
Ray June - Cinematographer

Feature Details

Title: Horse Feathers
Feature Release Date: 1932
Genre: Comedy
Rating: Not Rated
Color: Black and White
Runtime: 67 Minutes
Chapters: 6
Picture: Academy Ratio
Ratio: 1.33:1
Playback Format: CLV

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Technical Details

Catalog Number: 40777
UPC: 025192407772
Manufacturer: Pioneer USA
Collection: Encore Edition
Publisher: MCA/Universal Home Video

Diameter: 12"
Sides: 2
Cover: Jacket
Spoken Language: English
Country: USA
Video Format: NTSC

Model: 40777
Shipping Weight: 1 lbs
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Near-Mint LaserDisc and Jacket with a split

Groucho Marx, Chico Marx, Harpo Marx and Zeppo Marx in...

Horse Feathers

Encore Edition

( Catalog Number 40777 )
(1.33:1) (2 Sides) (CLV) (NTSC)

LaserDisc Special Features

Best Version on LaserDisc
LaserDisc

Horse Feathers
1932 - 67 min. - Black and White
Genre: Comedy
Not Rated
Country: USA

LaserDisc Movie Storyline:
The Marx Brothers parody college life in this gag-filled, fast-paced comedy. The fast-talking new president of Huxley College needs to scrounge up some top-flight ringers for his football team, but ends up with a bootlegger and a mute dog catcher instead. More laughs than most comedies (and smart laughs, at that), this script, coscripted by satirist SJ Perelman, is humor at its most clever.

LaserDisc Movie Review:
If ever there was an archetypal Marx Brothers comedy, it was the team's 1932 offering Horse Feathers. Groucho Marx is cast as Professor Quincy Adams Wagstaff, the newest president of Huxley College. As he delivers his introductory speech before the assembled student body ("As I look out among your smiling, eager faces, I can readily understand why this college is flat on its back"), he maps out his plans for the future by singing those deathless hits Whatever It Is, I'm Against It and I Always Get My Man. He then has a powwow with his son Frank (Zeppo Marx), who has been a Huxley student for 12 years. Frank tells his old man that Huxley has had a new president every year since 1888, the year the college won its last football game. The only way to save the establishment is to hire a couple of good football players, Mullen and McHardie (Jim Pierce and Nat Pendleton), who hang out at the local speakeasy. With his usual efficiency, Professor Wagstaff signs up the wrong men for the Huxley team: Baravelli (Chico Marx), the ice man/bootlegger, and Pinky (Harpo Marx) the dog catcher. Meanwhile, gambler Jennings (David Landau), who has all his money bet on Darwin College in the upcoming Thanksgiving Day football game, instructs his girlfriend Connie Bailey (Thelma Todd), the college widow, to get her hands on Huxley's secret football signals. This leads to a frenetic four-way courtship in Connie's apartment, as Wagstaff, Baravelli, Pinky and Frank duck in and out of doors and windows to romance the heroine. Later on, Baravelli and Pinky try to kidnap Mullen and McHardie to keep them out of the Big Game, only to end up kidnapped themselves. Miraculously, all four of our heroes show up at the Huxley-Darwin game in time, achieving victory through some of the most creative cheating in gridiron history. Written by such renowned wits as S. J. Perelman, Will B. Johnstone, Bert Kalmar and Harry Ruby, Horse Feathers is a comedy smorgasbord, offering generous doses of all four Marx Brothers performing some of their best-ever material. Who could not love a film in which, just before Chico Marx launches into his obligatory piano solo, Groucho saunters up to the camera and growls "I've got to stay here, but that's no reason why you folks can't go into the lobby until this thing blows over" In addition, this is the film that introduced the semi-satirical romantic ballad Everyone Says I Love You, which was used over six decades later as the title of a Woody Allen picture. Unfortunately, current prints of Horse Feathers are incomplete, with nearly five minutes of comedy material missing; the search goes on for a pristine, uncut negative. --- Hal Erickson

The Marx Brothers' fourth film, the version of Horse Feathers that exists today is missing several minutes, making the film choppy and occasionally jarring, but there's such an abundance of inspired lunacy that it hardly matters. Feathers makes no more sense than most of the boys' films, and that's exactly the way it should be. Ostensibly a parody of the college films that had become popular at the time, Feathers is really an attack on everything conventional --- including rational moviemaking. More technically polished than Cocoanuts and Animal Crackers, it still revels in anarchy and elevates the non-sequitur as close to an art form as it can get. The movie is filled with Groucho's special brand of humor (e.g., "Why don't you go home to your wife I'll tell you what, I'll go home to your wife and, outside of the improvement, she'll never know the difference,") and features one of his signature songs, "I'm Against It," as well as the very popular "Everyone Says I Love You." Other highlights include the classic exchange involving the password "sw

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Cast for Horse Feathers

Groucho Marx - Prof. Ouincy Adams Wagstaff
Chico Marx - Barovelli
Harpo Marx - Pinky
Zeppo Marx - Frank Wagstaff
Thelma Todd - Connie Bailey
David Landau - Jennings
Florine McKinney - Peggy Carrington
James Pierce - Mullen
Reginald Barlow - Retiring President of Huxley College
Nat Pendleton - MacHardie
Edward J. Le Saint - Profs. in Wagstaff's Study
Marx Brothers
E.H. Calvert - Professor in Wagstaff's Study
Robert Craig - The Biology Professor

Crew for Horse Feathers

Norman Z. McLeod - Director
Herman Mankiewicz - Producer
Bert Kalmar - Screenwriter
S.J. Perelman - Screenwriter
Harry Ruby - Screenwriter / Composer (Music Score)
Ray June - Cinematographer

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