Another Marx-film (and again, not about Karl) with monsieur Moustache, Groucho Marx, alias Quincy Adams Wagstaff as the new president of a college called Huxley College.
Zeppo plays his son Frank and Harpo, and Chico are doing the roles as "icemen".
In this film we get to follow the competition between two colleges, Darwin and Huxley Colleges, when they meet in a game of football.
Wagstaff (Groucho) is convinced by his son (Zeppo) to recruit professional players so that they will be able to win but unfortunately the "icemen" Baravelli (Chico) and Pinky (Harpo) becomes involved in the planning and in the game.
In order to be able to participate in the game Baravelli and Pinky has to enroll as students, creating a somewhat turbulent situation at the College to say the least.
In the end they win the game - of course - and the film contains one of the most famous football-related scenes within the movies, a rather absurd solution to the question how to win a football game.
The usual fast-talking jokes from, not least Groucho and Chico, are the standing ingredients and then we have some real slap-stick scenes, not least created by Chico and Harpo as "icemen"!
Some one (or two)-liners:
"Professor Wagstaff: Tomorrow we start tearing down the college.
The Professors: But, Professor, where will the students sleep?
Professor Wagstaff: Where they always sleep: in the classroom."
"Frank: Dad, let me congratulate you. I'm proud to be your son.
Professor Wagstaff: My boy, you took the words right out of my mouth. I'm ashamed to be your father. You're a disgrace to our family name of Wagstaff, if such a thing is possible."
"Professor Wagstaff: You know you've got the brain of a four-year old child, and I bet he was glad to get rid of it."
Zeppo plays his son Frank and Harpo, and Chico are doing the roles as "icemen".
In this film we get to follow the competition between two colleges, Darwin and Huxley Colleges, when they meet in a game of football.
Wagstaff (Groucho) is convinced by his son (Zeppo) to recruit professional players so that they will be able to win but unfortunately the "icemen" Baravelli (Chico) and Pinky (Harpo) becomes involved in the planning and in the game.
In order to be able to participate in the game Baravelli and Pinky has to enroll as students, creating a somewhat turbulent situation at the College to say the least.
In the end they win the game - of course - and the film contains one of the most famous football-related scenes within the movies, a rather absurd solution to the question how to win a football game.
The usual fast-talking jokes from, not least Groucho and Chico, are the standing ingredients and then we have some real slap-stick scenes, not least created by Chico and Harpo as "icemen"!
Some one (or two)-liners:
"Professor Wagstaff: Tomorrow we start tearing down the college.
The Professors: But, Professor, where will the students sleep?
Professor Wagstaff: Where they always sleep: in the classroom."
"Frank: Dad, let me congratulate you. I'm proud to be your son.
Professor Wagstaff: My boy, you took the words right out of my mouth. I'm ashamed to be your father. You're a disgrace to our family name of Wagstaff, if such a thing is possible."
"Professor Wagstaff: You know you've got the brain of a four-year old child, and I bet he was glad to get rid of it."
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