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Animal Crackers

193098 minUnited States
ComedyMusicalRomance
Video edition
Wikimedia Commons
Original language
English
This copy runs
98:14
Subtitles
No subtitle track in this language

Languages and subtitles

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Wikimedia Commons · Victor Heerman · Public domain

Synopsis

A wealthy hostess celebrates the return of explorer Captain Spaulding with a society weekend and the unveiling of a valuable painting. Several guests independently plan to substitute copies for the original. The Marx Brothers turn the resulting confusion into an occasion for verbal attacks, musical interruptions and a sustained assault on the party's carefully arranged respectability.

Cast

DirectorsVictor Heerman

Inspirations

The brothers bring their successful stage musical to the screen, preserving routines alongside a loose art-theft plot. Groucho's celebrated explorer provides an especially unstable center for the gathering's claims to refinement.

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Work catalogued as public domain in the United States.

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Availability checked on September 12, 2026.

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Photographs cropped, resized and optimized as WebP, displayed in monochrome.

  • Groucho Marx — ABC Photo; eBay · Public domain
  • Harpo Marx — Vandamm Studio; http://digitalgallery.nypl.org/nypldigital/id?1158251 · Public domain
  • Chico Marx — Unknown photographer; RR Auctions · Public domain
  • Zeppo Marx — Ralph F. Stitt; This image is available from the United States Library of Congress 's Prints and Photographs division under the digital ID cph.3c26207 . This tag does not indicate the copyright status of the attached work. A normal copyright tag is still required. See Commons:Licensing . · Public domain
  • Lillian Roth — unknown (Paramount Pictures); eBay · Public domain

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