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A day at the Races; A , yes the marx brothers

Posted by: JMT-NL on Jun 18, 09:40 in response to islander's post So Who Saw What Last Week? (me - Abduction: C)

I allways liked those Marx Brothers films, but to my friends I could never explain why exactly.

Yesterday I saw this on the tele and I finally understood that these films are stageshows/vaudevilleacts put together on film. Those Marx Brothers films are all glued together 5 minute sketches, that were hilarious on stage... and no less hilarious on film, when seeing them now.

20/30 years ago I saw the cleverness of the dialogues but I was allways dissapointed in the story ( which - now I understand - should be ignored... and the filmic quality of it all... 

These films were surely inferior to Citizen Kane ( a film I adored at that time ) but now I start to wonder :-) 

 

So Who Saw What Last Week? (me - Abduction: C) islander Jun 18, 08:20

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A day at the Races; A , yes the marx brothers JMT-NL Jun 18, 09:40

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