Long before anyone could pause a movie, owning one meant owning a few minutes of it. Castle Films sold the great comedies to home-movie families as short reels in boxes almost louder than the films inside. These four are the Marx Brothers at their best and at their most unexpected.
Three come from the Paramount years. This Is War? is the finale of Duck Soup, Pigskin Caper is the football game that ends Horse Feathers, and Monkey Business sends the brothers to sea as stowaways. The fourth, The Incredible Jewel Robbery, is a 1959 television curiosity made for General Electric Theater. Harpo and Chico perform a wordless heist, and Groucho appears only in the final police lineup to deliver the film's one line: "We won't talk until we see our lawyer."
Silent, black-and-white Super 8, each in its original illustrated box. Equally at home in a projector or on a bookshelf.
Long before anyone could pause a movie, owning one meant owning a few minutes of it. Castle Films sold the great comedies to home-movie families as short reels in boxes almost louder than the films inside. These four are the Marx Brothers at their best and at their most unexpected.
Three come from the Paramount years. This Is War? is the finale of Duck Soup, Pigskin Caper is the football game that ends Horse Feathers, and Monkey Business sends the brothers to sea as stowaways. The fourth, The Incredible Jewel Robbery, is a 1959 television curiosity made for General Electric Theater. Harpo and Chico perform a wordless heist, and Groucho appears only in the final police lineup to deliver the film's one line: "We won't talk until we see our lawyer."
Silent, black-and-white Super 8, each in its original illustrated box. Equally at home in a projector or on a bookshelf.
