Arena Theater Film Club
Monday August 4, 7 p.m.
Horse Feathers
As president of Huxley College, the fun-loving Professor Wagstaff (Groucho) attempts to help his son (Zeppo) finally graduate after 12 years by arranging to "buy" professional football players for an upcoming big game against rival Darwin University. The plan takes an unexpected twist, however, when a bootlegger (Chico) and a dogcatcher (Harpo) are mistaken for the athletes and accidentally hired instead. Featuring their trademark insanity, including a climactic football sequence that has to be seen to be believed, this quintessential Marx Brothers' comedy earned a place on the AFI's 100Years...100 Laughs list.
The mad-cap film - a zany take-off on college education (and football), is known for its fast-paced, non-sequitur, inconsistent nature as was typical of all Marx Brothers films. The plot affords many opportunities for the comedic team to show off their anarchic style of humor, with many pun-filled, absurd, nonsensical bits of dialogue, insults, idiosyncrasies, and one-liners.
Woody Allen's musical Everyone Says I Love You (1996) took its title from the recurring song sung by the characters. Director: Norman Z. McLeod Rating: NR Runtime: 68 minutes
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