Actor: Walter Woolf King

Go West (1940)

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I have been watching the Marx Brothers films in chronological order, with occasional breaks when I have watched films for work, with friends, or just when I wanted to pace myself. I have seen Go West before, and so know it is far from the Brothers’ best, but decided to give it another try. In [...]


A Night at the Opera (1935)

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The Marx Brothers completed Duck Soup in 1933 and either opted not to renew their contract with Paramount, or were cut off from the studio due to the poor box office performance of their latest film. They were set adrift without a home, a situation similar to the one they found themselves in around 1923, [...]


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“I was sayin' just this morning at the weekly prayer breakfast, in this historic capital, that it behooves both the Jews and the Arabs to settle their differences in a Christian manner!”
-The Governor (Charles Durning)
from The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas