The Marx Brothers. Silver Screen Collection

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Includes bonus disc.
"Duck soup" originally released as a motion picture in 1933; "Horse feathers" originally released as a motion picture in 1932; "Monkey business" originally released as a motion picture in 1932; "Animal crackers" originally released as a motion picture in 1930; "The cocoanuts" originally released as a motion picture in 1929.
Animal crackers: Based on the musical play by George S. Kaufman, Morrie Ryskind, Bert Kalmar and Harry Ruby.
Cocoanuts: From the play originally presented by Sam H. Harris ; book by George S. Kaufman.
Bonus materials: Theatrical trailers to each movie (except "Monkey business" and "The cocoanuts") included on each disc. Disc 6: Today Show interviews with: Harpo Marx - 1961; Groucho Marx - 1963; William Marx - 1985.
Disc 1. Duck soup (69 min. ; 1933) / Paramount presents ; directed by Leo McCarey ; story, music and lyrcs by Bert Kalmar and Harry Ruby -- Disc 2. Horse feathers (67 min. ; 1932) / Adolph Zukor presents ; directed by Norman McLeod ; by Bert Kalmar, Harry Ruby, S.J. Perelman and Will B. Johnstone -- Disc 3. Monkey business (78 min. ; 1932) / Paramount presents ; directed by Norman McLeod ; by S.J. Perelman and Will B. Johnstone -- Disc 4. Animal crackers (97 min. ; 1930) / Paramount presents ; directed by Victor Heerman ; screen play by Morrie Ryskind -- Disc 5. The cocoanuts (93 min. ; 1929) / Adolph Zukor & Jesse L. Lasky present ; adapted by Morrie Ryskind ; directed by Joseph Santley and Robert Florey -- Disc 6. Bonus materials.
Duck soup: Groucho Marx, Harpo Marx, Chico Marx, Zeppo Marx, Margaret Dumont, Raquel Torres, Louis Calhern, Edmund Breese, Leonid Kinsky, Charles B. Middleton, Edgar Kennedy.
Horse feathers: Groucho Marx, Harpo Marx, Chico Marx, Zeppo Marx, Thelma Todd, David Landau.
Monkey business: Groucho Marx, Harpo Marx, Chico Marx, Zeppo Marx, Rockcliffe Fellowes, Harry Woods, Thelma Todd, Ruth Hall, Tom Kennedy.
Animal crackers: Groucho Marx, Harpo Marx, Chico Marx, Zeppo Marx, Lillian Roth, Margaret Dumont, Louis Sorin, Hal Thompson, Margaret Irving, Kathryn Reece, Robert Greig, Edward Metcalf, the Music Masters.
Cocoanuts: Groucho Marx, Harpo Marx, Chico Marx, Zeppo Marx, Oscar Shaw, Mary Eaton, Cyril Ring, Kay Francis, Margaret Dumont, Basil Ruysdael.
Duck soup: To rescue the small country of Freedonia from bankruptcy, Mrs Teasdale agrees to donate 20 million dollars if Rufus T. Firefly is appointed its new president.
Horse feathers: Professor Quincy Wagstaff has just been installed as the new president of Huxley College.
Monkey business: While stowing away on a ship to America, the boys get involuntarily pressed into service as toughs for a pair of feuding gangsters.
Animal crackers: Captain Spaulding, the noted explorer, returns from Africa and attends a gala party held by Mrs. Rittenhouse.
Cocoanuts: Mr. Hammer runs a bankrupt hotel in Florida, where he will try anything to make money.
DVD, NTSC, region 1, full screen (1.33:1) presentation; Dolby Digital 2.0 mono, single-layer, single-sided.

COMMUNITY REVIEWS

Essential submitted by answer-beat on January 23, 2022, 8:51pm Their earliest films can be rough (Cocoanuts is way too long, very rough fidelity-wise, and there's too many scenes without the brothers), but they just kept getting better and better. Horse Feathers and Duck Soup are barely an hour each, but they're packed tight with jokes, making them seem much longer. And I still don't understand how Harpo was even humanly possible, such a supernatural level of talent. Too many classic moments to list in this set. Whatever it is, I'm against it!