ZEPPO/MARX BROTHERS PRESENTATION 'ANIMAL CRACKERS'

<p></p><p></p><p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgxCwEhnAsW-xS9vUd_DxerHhNtzNOhKsmtsNKeQAqgWgYfRKVRg6K_35I7WjVvDmM7g5d9ZXny7IkVYg-Wof1kKux9G2p9nwctPAlKHkF8Yg_Hf8EgW4pVIEm2CWClTSmwHq4ReaQemdJrS28gNVGo7Ljekrn_xlF2jMIYmJNBpxSxyifCRf5WFwnG4UAx/s1600/Screen%20Shot%202024-06-16%20at%205.46.15%20PM%202.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="752" data-original-width="1600" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgxCwEhnAsW-xS9vUd_DxerHhNtzNOhKsmtsNKeQAqgWgYfRKVRg6K_35I7WjVvDmM7g5d9ZXny7IkVYg-Wof1kKux9G2p9nwctPAlKHkF8Yg_Hf8EgW4pVIEm2CWClTSmwHq4ReaQemdJrS28gNVGo7Ljekrn_xlF2jMIYmJNBpxSxyifCRf5WFwnG4UAx/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202024-06-16%20at%205.46.15%20PM%202.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Title: ANIMAL CRACKERS Year: 1930 Rating: ***</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>The Marx Brothers ANIMAL CRACKERS is basically their hangout movie, seeming like a grand Broadway showcase with elaborate sets, mostly of a giant mansion interior celebrating Groucho as a famous big game hunter, introduced by his assistant played by straight-man brother Zeppo...</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>What's ironic is there's a kind of standard-handsome young actor named Hal Thompson whose relationship with beautiful Lilian Roth would have fit Zeppo instead of the few scenes as Groucho's note-scribbling gopher...</p><span></span>

ZEPPO/MARX BROTHERS PRESENTATION 'ANIMAL CRACKERS'

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Title: ANIMAL CRACKERS Year: 1930 Rating: ***The Marx Brothers ANIMAL CRACKERS is basically their hangout movie, seeming like a grand Broadway showcase with elaborate sets, mostly of a giant mansion interior celebrating Groucho as a famous

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ZEPPO/MARX BROTHERS BATTLE LOUIS CALHERN IN 'DUCK SOUP'

<p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhKFXrH6j781t6TXf4Pnv7wVttNV2Cvl5U5rqELAw5KeFFlcIK5W7w1a3BZXleBCLc0ZlAGwMSCQcNCPUCH3DqsbowPXYpxHEHbskRobwUDlTDKUjjVE1tnlp8qspF9cScF61nKwcLzP1U0kFJnp01Bjwreu1Ihzj63n-088StffqoEFFNGRgsKAP_prd4y/s2278/0.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="894" data-original-width="2278" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhKFXrH6j781t6TXf4Pnv7wVttNV2Cvl5U5rqELAw5KeFFlcIK5W7w1a3BZXleBCLc0ZlAGwMSCQcNCPUCH3DqsbowPXYpxHEHbskRobwUDlTDKUjjVE1tnlp8qspF9cScF61nKwcLzP1U0kFJnp01Bjwreu1Ihzj63n-088StffqoEFFNGRgsKAP_prd4y/s16000/0.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Title: DUCK SOUP Year: 1933 Rating: ****</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Heavily influencing comparably-modern classics from Mel Brooks' BLAZING SADDLES to Woody Allen's BANANAS (and even Charlie Chaplin's THE GREAT DICTATOR), The Marx Brothers' DUCK SOUP is by far their greatest movie... with a neatly constructed beginning, middle and end where their perfect straight-person Margaret Dumont forces the fictional country of Freedonia to hire Groucho Marx's Rufus T. Firefly to rule the land...</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>And while quiet/handsome brother Zeppo is ultimately wasted, once again as Groucho's note-scribbling assistant, and Harpo's role seems rather forced, mostly just cutting things with scissors, Chico, who becomes Groucho's more hands-on sidekick, is of almost equal importance to the quip-spouting, mustached leader...</p><p><span></span></p>

ZEPPO/MARX BROTHERS BATTLE LOUIS CALHERN IN 'DUCK SOUP'

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Title: DUCK SOUP Year: 1933 Rating: ****Heavily influencing comparably-modern classics from Mel Brooks' BLAZING SADDLES to Woody Allen's BANANAS (and even Charlie Chaplin's THE GREAT DICTATOR), The Marx Brothers' DUCK SOUP is by far their g

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CRAMMING THROUGH ZEPPO/MARX BROTHERS 'HORSE FEATHERS'

<p></p><p></p><p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEia_ReU9VeWsOQxnIhFdy9URCbUkSdBRkAWyaxQZEcBCoKpWb73sehZhES7Zbx76lg9gWC5xSmiop9i13K16jhJesNceB0GKDDtPmH1gAY6-OiFlwXepSbsi-Nx2TVea093-q4xtZ-dvtv1Nwcs-S84MUCPgmW-dHUyseF_VlvygIgPO7K7syK_Jukpr6OE/s1464/Screen%20Shot%202024-06-16%20at%201.56.36%20PM.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="636" data-original-width="1464" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEia_ReU9VeWsOQxnIhFdy9URCbUkSdBRkAWyaxQZEcBCoKpWb73sehZhES7Zbx76lg9gWC5xSmiop9i13K16jhJesNceB0GKDDtPmH1gAY6-OiFlwXepSbsi-Nx2TVea093-q4xtZ-dvtv1Nwcs-S84MUCPgmW-dHUyseF_VlvygIgPO7K7syK_Jukpr6OE/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202024-06-16%20at%201.56.36%20PM.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Zeppo and Grouchy Marx from HORSE FEATHERS Year: 1932 Rating: ***</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>While THE MARX BROTHERS are all great performers, Chico Marx is the character-actor of the bunch, moving the exposition and far more grouchy than Groucho, the one-line-spouting leader... </p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>And while they're all funny, Harpo Marx is the token zany physical comic while Zeppo, appearing in their first five films and here playing the college student son of new campus president Groucho, is the young handsome straight man... </p><p><span></span></p>

CRAMMING THROUGH ZEPPO/MARX BROTHERS 'HORSE FEATHERS'

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Zeppo and Grouchy Marx from HORSE FEATHERS Year: 1932 Rating: ***While THE MARX BROTHERS are all great performers, Chico Marx is the character-actor of the bunch, moving the exposition and far more grouchy than Groucho, the one-line-spoutin

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OUT TO SEA FOR THE ZEPPO/MARX BROTHERS 'MONKEY BUSINESS'

<p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhtFTAjV5Gb6QF6cI4xkS_Qwqqv9sfxBcnc049q0mdPzQ0hcCX9KS1nTOKkPfZdX9Jb9QfrxV6Y0sXwzGJB4oOgCbt4xyp5nAh4OGK4Flm1zyXePXa5nQAHC-djnSEbLhRa_Y6KWsu17LpUPYEr5LRrnWl-bEhEI8bBLJusbw4Whc1e_XGpAREt61Sz_2Hk/s1386/Screen%20Shot%202024-06-19%20at%203.36.44%20PM.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="802" data-original-width="1386" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhtFTAjV5Gb6QF6cI4xkS_Qwqqv9sfxBcnc049q0mdPzQ0hcCX9KS1nTOKkPfZdX9Jb9QfrxV6Y0sXwzGJB4oOgCbt4xyp5nAh4OGK4Flm1zyXePXa5nQAHC-djnSEbLhRa_Y6KWsu17LpUPYEr5LRrnWl-bEhEI8bBLJusbw4Whc1e_XGpAREt61Sz_2Hk/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202024-06-19%20at%203.36.44%20PM.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Year: MONKEY BUSINESS Year: 1931 Rating: **1/2</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>One of the first five Marx Brothers films featuring youngest brother Zeppo, usually cast as a romantic sidebar being more handsome and move star-looking than tough-type Chico, physical-comic/brilliant musician Harpo and one-liner leader Groucho, here in MONKEY BUSINESS aboard a luxury-liner ship and, while romancing semi-regular blonde ingenue Thelma Todd (along with brunette Ruth Hall), the boys are up to a lot of... <br></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Well the title says it all... as this isn't one of the better Marx flicks, with Zeppo actually taking part in the physical hijinkx with his comedic siblings instead of playing the straight man... the latter position where he fits best, needed far more for the guys to play off or against than along with, wherein four's kind of an unnecessary crowd.</p><p><span></span></p>

OUT TO SEA FOR THE ZEPPO/MARX BROTHERS 'MONKEY BUSINESS'

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Year: MONKEY BUSINESS Year: 1931 Rating: **1/2One of the first five Marx Brothers films featuring youngest brother Zeppo, usually cast as a romantic sidebar being more handsome and move star-looking than tough-type Chico, physical-comic/bri

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WOODY ALLEN AND MIA FARROW IN 'BROADWAY DANNY ROSE'

<div style="text-align: right;"> </div><p> </p><p></p><p></p><p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiBRrmmAjA9v7-MnjS-DPK3K2Rpuav-jFYuYWub-jVJfm385K7tOdMMS_IO0zj8SZtRIbCuy3VKuXNHaKRlWNHj0UY7EQQjofyvNWO3CYUPDIqe6NDXYRwM-yWLWrk_rhos4xp-AqX45_ESap6GOjiwkFQOeGmysW0YI3EwLuo2Sguuf6MhfJcEJptsMaLw/s1756/Screen%20Shot%202025-01-23%20at%208.24.49%20PM.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="942" data-original-width="1756" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiBRrmmAjA9v7-MnjS-DPK3K2Rpuav-jFYuYWub-jVJfm385K7tOdMMS_IO0zj8SZtRIbCuy3VKuXNHaKRlWNHj0UY7EQQjofyvNWO3CYUPDIqe6NDXYRwM-yWLWrk_rhos4xp-AqX45_ESap6GOjiwkFQOeGmysW0YI3EwLuo2Sguuf6MhfJcEJptsMaLw/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202025-01-23%20at%208.24.49%20PM.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Mia Farrow and Woody Allen in Broadway Danny Rose Year: 1984 Rating: ****1/2</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Not only one of Woody Allen’s best and most stylish films, but his performance goes outside the box: While the hardworking but low-rent New York talent agent Danny Rose... whose quirky clients range from a lady playing music on wine glasses to a blind xylophone player to a parrot pecking songs on a piano... embodies the usual Woody Allen nervousness and quick release of one-liners, they don't seem meant as punchlines...</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>And there’s a kindhearted, fervently optimistic side you won't see in other Allen protagonists: He really cares about humanity; especially the ones in his stable of industry rejects. <br> </p><span></span>

WOODY ALLEN AND MIA FARROW IN 'BROADWAY DANNY ROSE'

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Mia Farrow and Woody Allen in Broadway Danny Rose Year: 1984 Rating: ****1/2Not only one of Woody Allen’s best and most stylish films, but his performance goes outside the box: While the hardworking but low-rent New York talent agent Danny

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JANET MUNRO & JENNIFER JAYNE IN 'THE TROLLENBERG TERROR'

<p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhmNpc32Xls2mMXrjENZFhORiKxNx0x_I_uinwAMnfjHIXZuELgzAw1bl41c6Bo_CMAQS6A_hcg0gsUSF_Kr_yb9VOAHbjsNe6HvpXXERT6qEuoAb4lXY9_9XiAuCcCy4ELhkL0dRJRbV_KkaolMN1KaUN56PjxaxASjCYnYiyAEcUATzgBeSzyN2ln-cEz/s1864/1.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1030" data-original-width="1864" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhmNpc32Xls2mMXrjENZFhORiKxNx0x_I_uinwAMnfjHIXZuELgzAw1bl41c6Bo_CMAQS6A_hcg0gsUSF_Kr_yb9VOAHbjsNe6HvpXXERT6qEuoAb4lXY9_9XiAuCcCy4ELhkL0dRJRbV_KkaolMN1KaUN56PjxaxASjCYnYiyAEcUATzgBeSzyN2ln-cEz/s16000/1.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>THE TROLLENBERG TERROR aka THE CRAWLING EYE Year: 1958 Rating: ****</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>The originally-titled British horror THE TROLLENBERG TERROR changing into THE CRAWLING EYE is a matter of b-movie peer pressure, morphing a genuinely effective, deliberately slow-paced and mostly character-driven thriller into the kind of campy fare that never really had a chance...</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>The central character is imported American actor Forrest Tucker, who had just come off another British-made snowbound venture (by Hammer Studios) THE ABOMINABLE SNOWMAN... and TERROR is equally smart and cerebral, featuring scream-queen Janet Munro as a young lady with telepathic powers, who... before honing in on the impending danger at hand... was a kind of novelty act with perfectly-cast older sister Jennifer Jayne, both lovely brunettes with full lips and looking very much related...</p><p><span></span></p>

JANET MUNRO & JENNIFER JAYNE IN 'THE TROLLENBERG TERROR'

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THE TROLLENBERG TERROR aka THE CRAWLING EYE Year: 1958 Rating: ****The originally-titled British horror THE TROLLENBERG TERROR changing into THE CRAWLING EYE is a matter of b-movie peer pressure, morphing a genuinely effective, deliberately

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