Duck Soup Marx Brothers Torrent
Marx Brothers Torrent. 4/2/2018 0 Comments Published: November 23, 1933 Those mad clowns, the Marx brothers, are now holding forth on the Rivoli screen in their latest concoction, 'Duck Soup,' a production in which the bludgeon is employed more often than the gimlet. The result is that this production is, for the most part, extremely noisy.
| Duck Soup | |
|---|---|
| Directed by | Fred Guiol |
| Produced by | Hal Roach |
| Written by | H.M. Walker Arthur J. Jefferson (play) |
| Starring | Stan Laurel Oliver Hardy |
| Edited by | Richard C. Currier |
| Distributed by | Pathé Exchange Inc. |
Release date | |
Running time | 20 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | Silent film English intertitles |
Duck Soup is a silentcomedyshort film starring Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy prior to their official billing as the duo Laurel and Hardy. The team appeared in a total of 107 films between 1921 and 1951.
Plot[edit]
Fleeing a group of forest rangers, who are rounding up tramps to serve as firefighters, Laurel and Hardy take refuge in a mansion. The owner has gone on vacation and the servants are away, so Hardy pretends to be the owner and offers to rent the house to an English couple. Hardy gets Laurel to pose as the maid. Unfortunately, the owner returns and tells the would-be renters that he owns the house. Laurel and Hardy then flee again and are caught by the rangers and forced to fight wildfires.
Production background[edit]
Duck Soup was considered a lost film for nearly fifty years, until a print was discovered in 1974. It was previously thought by film scholars that the comedians barely shared any scenes, if any, but in fact they appear as a team throughout the entire picture, albeit rather primitively, dressed in tramp costuming, with Hardy sporting an unshaven chin and top hat. In the next few films, Laurel and Hardy were together as separate performers and not working as a double act, before their potential as a team was used again, notably in Do Detectives Think? (1927), another Hal Roach two-reeler.
The film was directed by Fred Guiol. However, the more important contribution was by the films' supervising director, Leo McCarey, who probably more than anyone else at Roach saw the greatest possibilities for Laurel and Hardy as a comedy team. McCarey later used the same title for the classic Marx Brothers film, Duck Soup, which he directed for Paramount Pictures in 1933. The sketch on which the film was based was written by Stan Laurel's father, Arthur J. Jefferson.
Duck Soup was remade as Another Fine Mess (1930).[1]
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Cast[edit]
- Stan Laurel as James Hives/Agnes
- Oliver Hardy as Marmaduke Maltravers/fake Colonel Blood
- James A. Marcus as Colonel Blood
- William Austin as Lord Tarbotham
- Madeline Hurlock as Lady Tarbotham
- Bob Kortman as Forest Ranger McFidget
- William Courtright as Colonel Blood's butler
References[edit]
- ^Okuda, Ted; Neibaur, James L. (2012). Stan Without Ollie: The Stan Laurel Solo Films, 1917–1927. McFarland. p. 184. ISBN9780786447817. Retrieved 25 December 2018.
Further reading[edit]
- Bann, Richard W. (2014). 'Another Fine Mess: Laurel & Hardy's Legacy'. UCLA Film & Television Archive. Los Angeles, CA, USA: UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television. Retrieved 19 December 2015.
- Bann, Richard W. (2011). 'Film Preservation—Another Fine Mess: 'Why Don't You Do Something To Help Me?''. Laurel & Hardy, the Official Website. laurel-and-hardy.com. Archived from the original on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 19 December 2015.
External links[edit]
- Duck Soup on IMDb
- Duck Soup at the TCM Movie Database
- Duck Soup at AllMovie
- Duck Soup at Rotten Tomatoes