The Marx Brothers’ best movie (1933) and, not coincidentally, the one with the strongest director—Leo McCarey, who had the flexibility to give the boys their head and the discipline to make some ...

If you need something to take your mind off taxes, COVID-19 and world affairs, the News-Gazette Film Series will be screening “Duck Soup,” Marx Brothers’ 1933 comedy classic, at the ...

David Remnick talks about Groucho Marx's satirical seduction of Margaret Dumont in Leo McCarey's "Duck Soup" (1933). the man is seducing the slightly dim woman. Maybe it's not very PC these days but ...