Duck Soup
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Directed by	Leo McCarey
Produced by	Herman J. Mankiewicz (uncredited)
Written by	Bert Kalmar Harry Ruby Arthur Sheekman, and Nat Perrin
Starring	Groucho Marx Harpo Marx Chico Marx Zeppo Marx Margaret Dumont
Distributed by	Paramount Pictures (1933-1957) MCA/EMKA, Ltd. (1958-62) Universal Pictures (1962-present)
Release date(s)	November 17, 1933
Running time	68 min
Language	English
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Duck Soup is a 1933 Marx Brothers' anarchic comedy film written by Bert Kalmar, Harry Ruby, Arthur Sheekman, and Nat Perrin and directed by Leo McCarey. It starred what were then billed as the "Four Marx Brothers" (Groucho, Harpo, Chico, and Zeppo) and also featured Margaret Dumont, Raquel Torres, and Louis Calhern. It was the last Marx Brothers film to feature Zeppo. Image File history File links Duck_Soup. ... Leo McCarey (October 3, 1898 - July 5, 1969) was a movie director, screenwriter and producer. ... Bert Kalmar (16 February 1884 - 18 September 1947) was a popular United States songwriter, born in New York City. ... Harry Ruby (October 29, 1895 – February 23, 1974) was an American songwriter and screenwriter. ... Arthur Sheekman (February 5, 1901, Chicago – January 12, 1978), a graduate from the University of Minnesota, started his career as columnist and drama critic during the 1920s and the early 1930s for the Manhattan Newspaper. ... Nat Perrin (March 15, 1905-May 9, 1998) was a comedy writer who contributed gags and story lines to several Marx Brothers films, cowrote the play Hellzapoppin that became a film, and was the producer of the television series The Addams Family. ... Julius Henry Marx, known as Groucho Marx (October 2, 1890 – August 19, 1977), was an American comedian, working both with his siblings, the Marx Brothers, and on his own. ... Adolph Arthur Marx, popularly known as Harpo Marx, (November 23, 1888 – September 28, 1964) was one of the Marx Brothers, a group of Vaudeville entertainers who later achieved fame as comedians in the Motion Picture industry. ... Leonard Marx, known as Chico, (March 22, 1887 – October 11, 1961) was one of the Marx Brothers. ... Herbert Marx (February 25, 1901 – November 29, 1979) is best known as Zeppo Marx, the name he used when he performed with his brothers, The Marx Brothers. ... Margaret Dumont (born October 20, 1889; died March 6, 1965) was an American comedic actress. ... Paramount Pictures Corporation is an American motion picture production and distribution company, based in Hollywood, California. ... The Music Corporation of America was a United States based corporation in the music business. ... EMKA, Ltd. ... Universal Pictures is the main motion picture production/distribution arm of Universal Studios, a subsidiary of NBC Universal. ... 17 November is also the name of a Marxist group in Greece, coinciding with the anniversary of the Athens Polytechnic uprising. ... 1933 (MCMXXXIII) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will take you to calendar). ... Duck Soup can refer to: Duck Soup, a film by the Marx Brothers. ... See also: 1932 in film 1933 1934 in film 1930s in film years in film film // Events British Film Institute founded. ... Groucho, Gummo, Minnie (mother), Zeppo, Frenchy (father), Chico and Harpo. ... Anarchic comedy is a genre of cinema using nonsensical, stream-of-consciousness humor which often lampoons some form of authority. ... Bert Kalmar (16 February 1884 - 18 September 1947) was a popular United States songwriter, born in New York City. ... Harry Ruby (October 29, 1895 – February 23, 1974) was an American songwriter and screenwriter. ... Arthur Sheekman (February 5, 1901, Chicago – January 12, 1978), a graduate from the University of Minnesota, started his career as columnist and drama critic during the 1920s and the early 1930s for the Manhattan Newspaper. ... Nat Perrin (March 15, 1905-May 9, 1998) was a comedy writer who contributed gags and story lines to several Marx Brothers films, cowrote the play Hellzapoppin that became a film, and was the producer of the television series The Addams Family. ... Leo McCarey (October 3, 1898 - July 5, 1969) was a movie director, screenwriter and producer. ... Julius Henry Marx, known as Groucho Marx (October 2, 1890 – August 19, 1977), was an American comedian, working both with his siblings, the Marx Brothers, and on his own. ... Adolph Arthur Marx, popularly known as Harpo Marx, (November 23, 1888 – September 28, 1964) was one of the Marx Brothers, a group of Vaudeville entertainers who later achieved fame as comedians in the Motion Picture industry. ... Leonard Marx, known as Chico, (March 22, 1887 – October 11, 1961) was one of the Marx Brothers. ... Herbert Marx (February 25, 1901 – November 29, 1979) is best known as Zeppo Marx, the name he used when he performed with his brothers, The Marx Brothers. ... Margaret Dumont (born October 20, 1889; died March 6, 1965) was an American comedic actress. ... Raquel Torres (1908-1987) was a Mexican film actress born in Hermosillo, Mexico. ... Calhern in The Asphalt Jungle (1950) Louis Calhern (born February 19, 1895 in Brooklyn, New York; died May 12, 1956 in Japan) was an American actor. ...

Plot

In the film Groucho plays Rufus T. Firefly, the governor of the small country of Freedonia, who finds himself on the verge of war with the neighboring country of Sylvania. Are you kidding?, this is solid truth here, nothing escapes the eyes of Gov!!!, not even. ... Freedonia, (Land of the Spree, and the Home of the Knave), is a fictional country in Europe, seen during the 1933 movie Duck Soup, which starred the Marx Brothers. ... The United States detonated an atomic bomb over Nagasaki on August 9, 1945. ...

Duck soup is a slang phrase meaning "a piece of cake", or something easy to do. The expression was in keeping with the "animal" theme of the brothers' previous three titles, Animal Crackers, Monkey Business and Horse Feathers. McCarey came up with the title for the film. When Groucho was asked for an explanation, he said: Slang is the use of highly informal words and expressions that are not considered standard in the speakers dialect or language. ... See also Animal crackers (disambiguation). ... Monkey Business is a 1931 film, the third of the Marx Brothers movies and the first not to be an adaptation of one of their Broadway shows. ... Horse Feathers (1932) was the fourth Marx Brothers film. ...

"Take two turkeys, one goose, four cabbages, but no duck, and mix them together. After one taste, you'll duck soup for the rest of your life."^{[citation needed]}

Reception

Popular belief holds that Duck Soup was a box office failure, but this is not true. Even though it did not do as well as Horse Feathers, it was the sixth-highest grossing film of 1933, according to Glenn Mitchell in The Marx Brothers Encyclopedia and Simon Louvish in his biography of the Marx Brothers, Monkey Business. The musical introduction to Groucho's character is similar to the ones in Animal Crackers and Horse Feathers, and audiences at the time may have seen it as a rehash, though modern audiences do not necessarily make this association. Although Groucho's opening number did not become connected with him closely as did the Animal Crackers numbers, its biting satire resonates: Glenn Mitchell (September 28, 1950–November 20, 2005) was a Dallas, Texas radio personality on NPR-member public radio station KERA 90. ...

The last man nearly ruined this place,

He didn't know what to do with it;

If you think this country's bad off now,

Just wait till I get through with it!

A possible reason for the film's bad reception might be because of the time frame in which it was released: in the midst of the Great Depression of 1929-1939. Audiences were taken aback by such preposterous political disregard, buffoonery and cynicism at a time of political crisis. (This film quote, spoken by Groucho, was reportedly especially detested: "And remember, while you're out there risking life and limb through shot and shell, we'll be in here thinking what a sucker you are!") The Great Depression was an economic downturn which started in 1929 (although its effects were not but felt until late 1930) and lasted through most of the 1930s. ...

The people of the city of Fredonia, New York protested the film because they feared that the similar-sounding Freedonia hurt their city's reputation. The Marx Brothers responded with, "Change the name of your town. It's hurting our picture." Fredonia is a village located in Chautauqua County, New York. ... Official language(s) English de facto Capital Albany Largest city New York City Area  Ranked 27th  - Total 54,520 sq mi (141,205 km²)  - Width 285 miles (455 km)  - Length 330 miles (530 km)  - % water 13. ...

Years later, Arthur Marx, Groucho's son, described Irving Thalberg's assessment of the film's failure during a National Public Radio interview: Irving Grant Thalberg (May 30, 1899 - September 14, 1936) was an American film producer during the early years of motion pictures. ... NPR redirects here. ...

[Thalberg] said the trouble with Duck Soup is you've got funny gags in it, but there's no story and there's nothing to root for. You can't root for the Marx Brothers because they're a bunch of zany kooks. [Thalberg] says, "You gotta put a love story in your movie so there'll be something to root for, and you have to help the lovers get together."^{[citation needed]}

The supposedly necessary love story, included in later Marx films, is often seen as an intrusion, and the early films are seen as being "pure" comedy. Duck Soup is now seen as a classic political farce. The film was #85 on American Film Institute's 100 Years, 100 Movies and #5 on its 100 Years, 100 Laughs, and has been selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry. It is consistently on the Internet Movie Database's list of top 250 films. In 2000, readers of Total Film magazine voted Duck Soup the 29th greatest comedy film of all time. It is also one of the earliest films to appear on Pulitzer Prize-winning film critic Roger Ebert's list of Great Movies. A farce is a comedy written for the stage, or a film, which aims to entertain the audience by means of unlikely and extravagant - yet often possible - situations, disguise and mistaken identity, verbal humour of varying degrees of sophistication, which may include puns and sexual innuendo, and a fast-paced... The American Film Institute (AFI) is an independent non-profit organization created by the National Endowment for the Arts, which was established in 1967 when President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the National Foundation on the Arts and the Humanities Act. ... Part of the AFI 100 Years. ... The 100 funniest American films. ... The National Film Registry is the registry of films selected by the United States National Film Preservation Board for preservation in the Library of Congress. ... The Internet Movie Database (IMDb) is an online database of information about actors, films, television shows, video games and production crew personnel. ... This article is about the year 2000. ... Total Film, published by Future Publishing, is the United Kingdoms second best-selling film magazine, after the longer-established Empire from Emap. ... The gold medal awarded for Public Service in Journalism The Pulitzer Prize is an American award regarded as the highest honor in print journalism, literary achievements, and musical compositions. ... Roger Ebert (right) with Russ Meyer, 1970 Roger Joseph Ebert (born June 18, 1942) is an Emmy Award-nominated American television personality, author, and film critic who began writing for the Chicago Sun-Times, every week since 1967. ...

American literary critic Harold Bloom considers the end of Duck Soup one of the greatest works of American art produced in the 20th century. Harold Bloom, Literary Critic Dr. Harold Bloom (born July 11, 1930) is an American professor and prominent literary and cultural critic. ...

Famous Scenes

The irrepressible comedians in this quintessential anarchy, satirical film simply but irreverently assault the pomposity of small-time governmental leaders (Firefly as President), the absurdity of government itself (the Cabinet meeting scene), governmental diplomacy (the Trentino-Firefly scenes), a non-working legal system (the trial scenes), and war fought for trivial reasons (the mobilization and war scenes). Anarchism is the name of a political philosophy or a group of doctrines and attitudes that are centered on rejection of any form of compulsory government (such as the state)[1] and support its elimination. ... Mobilization or mobilisation is the act of assembling and making both troops and supplies ready for war. ... The United States detonated an atomic bomb over Nagasaki on August 9, 1945. ... In TV and movies a scene is a part of the action in a single location. ...

The non-stop frenetic film is filled with a number of delightfully funny moments, gags, fast-moving acts, double entendres, comedy routines, puns, pure silliness, zany ad-libs, quips and insult-spewed lines of dialogue. Much of the comedy makes the obvious statement that war is indeed nonsensical and meaninglessly destructive. The film also ridicules the justifications for warfare: The two nations go to war solely because Firefly and Trentino had insulted each other. Glycosaminoglycans (GAGs) are long unbranched polysaccharides, made up of repeating disaccharides that may be sulphated (e. ... A double entendre or innuendo is a figure of speech similar to the pun, in which a spoken phrase can be understood in either of two ways. ... Comedy has a classical meaning (comical theatre) and a popular one (the use of humour with an intent to provoke laughter in general). ... A pun (also known as paronomasia) is a deliberate confusion of similar-sounding words or phrases for comic or serious effect. ... Ad-Libs is an improvisational comedy theater tucked away in a corner of Dallas, Texas downtown Arts District. ...

In the "mirror scene," Harpo, dressed as Groucho, pretends to be Groucho's reflection in a missing mirror, matching and mocking his every move. Eventually, Chico, also disguised as Groucho, collides with both of them. This scene has been duplicated in many different films and genres (for example, the Bugs Bunny cartoon, Hare Tonic). Harpo himself did a reprise of this scene, dressed in his usual costume, with Lucille Ball also donning the fright wig and trench coat, in an episode of I Love Lucy. In that version, Harpo breaks it up by dropping his hat; Lucy also drops her hat, but Harpo's is on a rubber band and springs back to him, and Lucy and Harpo embrace as the studio audience applauds. A mirror is a surface with good specular reflection that is smooth enough to form an image. ... In TV and movies a scene is a part of the action in a single location. ... Bugs Bunny is an Academy Award-winning fictional street-smart anthropomorphic gray rabbit who appears in the Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies series of animated films produced by Warner Bros. ... Hare Tonic is a 1945 Looney Tunes Bugs Bunny cartoon, directed by Chuck Jones. ... Lucille Désirée Ball (August 6, 1911 – April 26, 1989) was an iconic American actress, comedian and star of the landmark sitcom I Love Lucy, a four time Emmy Award winner (awarded 1953, 1956, 1967, 1968) and charter member of the Television Hall of Fame. ... I Love Lucy, a CBS television sitcom that aired in the 1950s, was the most popular American sitcom of its generation and is still considered by viewers and experts alike to be one of the greatest television series of all time. ...

In another famous scene the Marx Brothers poke fun at the Hays Code by showing a woman's bedroom and then showing a woman's shoes on the floor, a man's shoes and horseshoes. Harpo is sleeping in the bed with the horse; the woman is in the twin bed next to them. The Production Code (also known as the Hays Code) was a set of industry guidelines governing the production of American motion pictures. ... --212. ... Womens shoes on display in a shop window, July 2005 A shoe is an item of footwear. ... Modern horseshoes are most commonly made of iron and nailed onto the hoof. ... Binomial name Equus caballus Linnaeus, 1758 The horse (Equus caballus, sometimes seen as a subspecies of the Wild Horse, Equus ferus caballus) is a large odd-toed ungulate mammal, one of ten modern species of the genus Equus. ...

Chico (or actually the film's writers) recycle a joke used in Horse Feathers: Horse Feathers (1932) was the fourth Marx Brothers film. ...

Prosecutor: Chicolini, isn't it true you sold Freedonia's secret war code and plans?

Chicolini: Sure! I sold a code and two pairs o' plans!"

The climactic production number ridicules war by comparing nationalism to a minstrel show. The irreverent satire still bites. One line is a variant on the old Spiritual "All God's Chillun Got Wings"[1]: Liberty Leading the People by Eugène Delacroix Nationalism is an ideology [1] that holds that a nation is the fundamental unit for human social life, and takes precedence over any other social and political principles. ... Detail from cover of The Celebrated Negro Melodies, as Sung by the Virginia Minstrels, 1843. ... // Spirituals were often expressions of religious faith, although they may also have served as socio-political protests veiled as assimilation to white, American culture. ...

We got guns, they got guns, all God's chillun got guns!

I'm gonna walk all over the battlefield, 'cause all God's chillun got guns!

The street vendor confrontations are also well-remembered scenes: Chico and Harpo harass a lemonade seller (comedy film veteran Edgar Kennedy) just to get a "kick" out of it, egged on by his flustered attitude. Chico is either: Places a place in the State of Alabama (see Chico, Alabama) a place in the State of California (see Chico, California) a place in the State of Montana (see Chico, Montana) a place in the State of New Mexico (see Chico, New Mexico) a place in the... Harpo is in reference to: Harpo Marx, Actor Harpo Productions, Multimedia Company the stage name of the swedish musican Jan Svensson This is a disambiguation page — a list of articles associated with the same title. ... Edgar Kennedy (b. ...

The typical Marxian anarchy found a receptive audience when the film was revived in the 1960s. The very end of the film finds Trentino caught in a makeshift stocks and the Brothers are pelting him with fruit. Margaret Dumont begins singing the Freedonia national anthem in her operatic voice. When she hits the high note, the Brothers turn away from Trentino and begin hurling fruit in her direction instead (none of it actually hits her, though she subtly dodges a couple of close ones).

Musical numbers

Original songs by Kalmar and Ruby

The introductory scene, showing ducks swimming in a kettle and quacking merrily, is scored with an instrumental medley of these songs, and is also the only scene in the film that has anything remotely to do with ducks.

• Freedonia hymn - used frequently, both as vocal and instrumental
• Sylvania theme (sounds vaguely like "Rule Britannia") - used several times
• When The Clock On The Wall Strikes 10, part of the same scene as...
• These are the Laws of My Administration
• Freedonia's Going To War

Non-original music

• Military Polonaise (Chopin) - under newpaper headline of Firefly's appointment
• Sailor's Hornpipe; Dixie - short segments embedded in Laws of My Administration
• Who's Afraid of the Big Bad Wolf - music box, accompanied by Harpo on harp, briefly; a few minutes later, in another scene, Groucho says "I'll huff and I'll puff and I'll blow your door in" after he is locked in a closet
• The Stars and Stripes Forever (Sousa) - on radio, turned on (loudly) by Harpo, who mistakes it for a safe
• American Patrol (Frank W. Meacham) - three of the Brothers playing soldiers' helmets like a xylophone as they march by, while Harpo clips off the decorative tassels (part of a running gag in the picture)
• All God's Chillun Got Guns (parody of All God's Chillun Got Wings); Oh Freedonia (parody of Oh Susanna); Turkey in the Straw (instrumental) - embedded in Freedonia's Going to War
• Light Cavalry Overture (Suppé) - Harpo galloping on horseback a la Paul Revere
• Ain't She Sweet (Milton Ager/Jack Yellen) - Harpo watching girl in window
• Goodnight, Sweetheart (Ray Noble) - Harpo and same girl (Edgar Kennedy's character's wife)
• Generic cavalry charge - Harpo with horn, in bathtub with Edgar Kennedy
• One Hour With You (Oscar Straus) ??? - Harpo with another girl (apparently at a brothel) and his horse - segué into a bit of The Old Gray Mare

The only known photograph of Frédéric Chopin (commonly mistaken for a daguerrotype), taken by Louis-Auguste Bisson in 1849. ... The term hornpipe refers to one of several dance forms played and danced in Britain and elsewhere from the late 17th century until the present day. ... Sheet music cover, c. ... Three Little Pigs is an animated short film released on May 27, 1933 by United Artists, produced by Walt Disney and directed by Burton Gillett. ... The Stars and Stripes Forever is a patriotic American march. ... Portrait of John Philip Sousa taken in 1900 John Philip Sousa (November 6, 1854 – March 6, 1932), popularly known as The March King, was an American composer and conductor of the late Romantic era known particularly for American military marches. ... Frank W. Meacham (born c. ... Xylophone in Bali 1937 The xylophone (from the Greek meaning wooden sound) is a musical instrument in the percussion family which probably originated in Indonesia (Nettl 1956, p. ... Suzie Ungerleider, who writes and performs as Oh Susanna, a Canadian alternative country singer-songwriter. ... Sheet music cover for Zip Coon, 1830s. ... Franz von Suppé The composer and conductor Franz von Suppé (April 18, 1819 – May 21, 1895) was born in Split (Dalmatia) and died in Vienna. ... Portrait of Paul Revere by John Singleton Copley, c. ... Milton Ager (October 6, 1893 - May 6, 1979) was an American pianist and composer. ... Jack Yellen (Jacek Jeleń) (July 6, 1892 - April 17, 1991) was a Polish-Jewish born American lyricist. ... Ray Noble was a British bandleader, composer, arranger and actor. ... Oscar Straus (6 March 1870 - 11 January 1954) was a Viennese composer of operettas. ... The Old Gray Mare is an old folk song, typically regarded as a kiddy song. ...

Trivia

• Duck Soup was the last film to feature the Four Marx Brothers. Zeppo Marx departed the act after the film was completed.
• Breaking with their usual pattern, neither Harpo's harp nor Chico's piano is used in the film, although Harpo briefly pretends to play harp on the strings of a piano, strumming chords in accompaniment to a music box that is playing the unlikely chime tune, "Who's Afraid of the Big Bad Wolf?" (from a rival studio's Three Little Pigs, released the same year as Duck Soup).
• The film was banned in the Italy of Benito Mussolini, who took it as a personal insult. The brothers were reportedly ecstatic when this happened.
• In one of the set-pieces in which Chico and Harpo harass Edgar Kennedy, the three of them all end up exchanging hats: Harpo wearing Kennedy's derby, Chico wearing Harpo's top hat, and Kennedy wearing Chico's "pinhead" hat. Harpo often doffed his hat on-screen, but Chico very rarely removed his pointed hat. For a few seconds on-screen, Chico's head is uncovered, revealing the wavy hair that was similar to Groucho's (before baldness began to set in).
• In the battle scenes, Firefly is dressed in several uniforms. He wears a different costume in almost every sequence until the end of the film, including American Civil War outfits (first Union and then Confederacy), a British palace guard uniform, a Boy Scout Scoutmaster's uniform, and even a coon-skin Davy Crockett cap. Meanwhile, the exterior view of the building they are occupying changes appearance from a bunker to an old fort, etc. Some analysts say that all the war costumes suggest that the scene symbolizes all American wars. As the Boy Scouts have never formally engaged in war, it is more likely that the writers were merely trying to get laughs.
• Scenes from Duck Soup play a significant role in a scene near the end of the Woody Allen film Hannah and Her Sisters.
• When the film was first released, the city of Fredonia, New York, complained about the possible negative implications the film could reflect on the city. The Marx Brothers replied, in typical Marx fashion, "Change the name of your town: You're hurting our picture." (According to urban legend, Groucho would use a similar idea in defending the title of A Night in Casablanca).
• Some sources say that the script was originally titled Firecrackers.
• Bananas, written and directed by Woody Allen, was loosely modelled after Duck Soup.
• The filmed was spoofed in Animaniacs as the full-episode sketch "King Yakko". One specific gag from the original, the constant singing of the Fredonian national anthem, was spoofed in particular with a Perry Como charicature.

Herbert Marx (February 25, 1901 – November 29, 1979) is best known as Zeppo Marx, the name he used when he performed with his brothers, The Marx Brothers. ... The harp is a stringed instrument which has its strings positioned perpendicular to the soundboard. ... A grand piano, with the lid up. ... Three Little Pigs is an animated short film released on May 27, 1933 by United Artists, produced by Walt Disney and directed by Burton Gillett. ... Benito Amilcare Andrea Mussolini (July 29, 1883 – April 28, 1945) was the Prime-Minister and dictator of Italy from 1922 until his overthrow in 1943. ... Combatants United States of America (Union) Confederate States of America (Confederacy) Commanders Abraham Lincoln, Ulysses S. Grant Jefferson Davis, Robert Edward Lee Strength 2,200,000 1,064,000 Casualties 110,000 killed in action, 360,000 total dead, 275,200 wounded 93,000 killed in action, 258,000 total... The Boy Scouts of America (BSA) is an American Scouting organization, with some presence in other countries. ... Davy Crockett David Crockett (August 17, 1786 – March 6, 1836) 19th-century American folk hero usually referred to as Davy Crockett and by the popular title King of the Wild Frontier. He represented Tennessee in the U.S. Congress, served in the Texas revolution, and died at the age of... Woody Allen (born Allen Stewart Konigsberg on December 1, 1935) is a three-time Academy Award-winning American film director, writer, actor, musician, and comedian. ... Hannah and Her Sisters is a 1986 romantic comedy film which tells the intertwined stories of an extended family, told mostly during a year that begins and ends with a family Thanksgiving dinner. ... Fredonia is a village located in Chautauqua County, New York. ... Sheet Music Cover A Night in Casablanca (1946) is the twelfth Marx Brothers movie. ... Bananas is a film written, directed, and starring Woody Allen and Louise Lasser in 1971. ... Woody Allen (born Allen Stewart Konigsberg on December 1, 1935) is a three-time Academy Award-winning American film director, writer, actor, musician, and comedian. ... Steven Spielberg Presents Animaniacs was a popular American animated television series, distributed by Warner Bros. ... Pierino Ronaldo Perry Como (May 18, 1912 – May 12, 2001) was an Italian American crooner during the latter half of the 20th century. ...

See also

• List of United States comedy films

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External links

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• Duck Soup at the Internet Movie Database
• Duck Soup at the TCM Movie Database
• Review and scene-by-scene description from a film buff whose ad-supported website is recommended by Roger Ebert
• Credit summary with "Four Marx Brothers" poster from a University of Illinois at Chicago website
• Present at the Creation, an NPR story about the failure of Duck Soup and the success of the film that followed
• Duck Soup script from a fan's website
• Freedonia tourist site created by a fan, loosely based on the world of the film