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31. DUCK SOUP (Leo McCarey, 1933, USA) [874.64 points; 14 votes; Morbs silver]
S&S: 265 | TSPDT: 146 | BOXD: DNP
MORBS SEZ: "results officially terminate after Duck Soup IS PLACED, btw"I think one of the main things that makes them so enjoyable for me is the rapid pace of the jokes; they just spit them out constantly and if you don't think one is funny then wait for 2 seconds and another will be right up. So even if you think 1/2 the jokes are actually funny then you're still laughing the whole movie. It's like they aren't even telling jokes for the sake of an audience, they're just being the biggest wise-asses they could possibly be. Oh, and Groucho & Miss Dumont = a match made in heaven. They should've done a spinoff together.
― Adam Bruneau, Thursday, September 18, 2008 9:51 AM
For some reason last night before I went to sleep I was thinking about the end of Duck Soup when they throw tomatoes at the fat lady singing the Land of Freedonia song.
― CaptainLorax, Tuesday, August 5, 2008 4:25 PM
for Harpo at his best see the Peanut Seller scene in Duck Soup.
― Horace Mann (Horace Mann), Thursday, July 31, 2003 2:09 PM
I like the bit in "Duck Soup" when the villainous Trentino, having asked his spies (Harpo & Chico) to gather information about President Rufus T. Firely, demands "Give me his record!" Naturally, Harpo instantly produces an old record (shellac, not vinyl; big deal)from inside his coat. Trentino tosses it away in disgust, only to have Harpo then produce a shotgun and blast the airborne record into a million pieces, thereby winning one of Trentino's cigars.
― Myonga Von Bontee (Myonga Von Bontee), Monday, June 13, 2005 11:12 AM
Duck Soup is genuinely the best (if I had voted I may well have put it at #1), but I feel like Day at the Races is the most underrated Marx Brothers.
― justfanoe (Greg Fanoe), Wednesday, April 4, 2012 8:44 AM
I'm kind of harrumphing over the fat jokes in that last clip. Jesus, man, just how thin do you need to be to avoid that kind of shit?
― emil.y, Wednesday, April 4, 2012 8:46 AM
why is he being such a dick to her? why doesn't she slap him unconscious?
― Porto for Pyros (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Wednesday, April 4, 2012 8:51 AM
she's Margaret Dumont.
― Exile in lolville (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, April 4, 2012 8:58 AM
It's Duck Soup...
― clemenza, Wednesday, April 4, 2012 8:56 AM
― Milm & Foovies (Eric H.), Monday, 1 November 2021 22:35 (two years ago) link
100. ROSEMARY'S BABY (Roman Polanski, Roman 1968, USA) [620 points; 10 votes]
99. LA JETÉE (Chris Marker, Chris 1962, France) [623.33 points; 9 votes; 1 first-place vote; Morbs silver]
98. MY NEIGHBOUR TOTORO (Miyazaki Hayao, 1988, Japan) [623.9 points; 10 votes]
97. SEVEN SAMURAI (Kurosawa Akira, 1954, Japan) [624.67 points; 9 votes]
96. MESHES OF THE AFTERNOON (Maya Deren & Alexander Hammid, 1943, USA) [625.71 points; 7 votes]
95. SHOWGIRLS (Paul Verhoeven, 1995, USA) [628 points; 4 votes]
94. ONCE UPON A TIME IN ANATOLIA (Nuri Bilge Ceylan, 2011, Turkey) [636 points; 6 votes]
93. ERASERHEAD (David Lynch, 1977, USA) [636.9 points; 10 votes]
92. THE GODFATHER (Francis Ford Coppola, 1972, USA) [643.4 points; 10 votes]
91. LAST YEAR AT MARIENBAD (Alain Resnais, 1961, France) [645.82 points; 11 votes]
90. MANDY (Panos Cosmatos, 2018, USA) [646.5 points; 8 votes]
89. THIS IS SPINAL TAP (Rob Reiner, 1984, USA) [650.91 points; 11 votes]
88. JOHNNY GUITAR (Nicholas Ray, 1954, USA) [651 points; 6 votes]
87. THE SPIRIT OF THE BEEHIVE (Victor Erice, 1973, Spain) [652 points; 8 votes]
86. A BRIGHTER SUMMER DAY (Edward Yang, 1991, Taiwan) [655.5 points; 6 votes; 1 first-place vote]
85. THE LADY EVE (Preson Sturges, 1941, USA) [656.4 points; 10 votes; Morbs silver]
84. CELINE AND JULIE GO BOATING (Jacques Rivette, 1974, France) [658.57 points; 7 votes]
83. THE KING OF COMEDY (Martin Scorsese, 1983, USA) [659.82 points; 11 votes; Morbs gold]
82. WILD STRAWBERRIES (Ingmar Bergman, 1957, Sweden) [661.5 points; 6 votes]
81. IT'S A WONDERFUL LIFE (Frank Capra, 1946, USA) [661.63 points; 8 votes]
80. CALIFORNIA SPLIT (Robert Altman, 1974, USA) [663 points; 6 votes]
79. UNDER THE SKIN (Jonathan Glazer, 2014, UK) [665 points; 12 votes]
78. THE WICKER MAN (Robin Hardy, 1973, UK) [668.5 points; 8 votes]
77. THE GOOD, THE BAD AND THE UGLY (Sergio Leone, 1966, Italy) [670 points; 12 votes; Morbs silver]
76. DAISIES (Vera Chytilová, 1966, Czechoslovakia) [674.29 points; 7 votes; 1 first-place vote]
75. THE MAN WHO SHOT LIBERTY VALANCE (John Ford, 1962, USA) [683.63 points; 8 votes; Morbs gold]
74. DAYS OF HEAVEN (Terrence Malick, 1978, USA) [683.63 points; 8 votes; 1 first-place vote]
73. BEING JOHN MALKOVICH (Spike Jonze, 1999, USA) [700.6 points; 10 votes]
72. PIERROT LE FOU (Jean-Luc Godard, 1965, France) [705 points; 6 votes]
71. MIRROR (Andrei Tarkovsky, 1975, USSR) [708.38 points; 8 votes; Morbs gold]
70. M (Fritz Lang, 1931, Germany) [708.67 points; 9 votes]
69. THE LIFE AND DEATH OF COLONEL BLIMP (Michael Powell & Emeric Pressburger, 1943, UK) [715.71 points; 7 votes]
68. CRUMB (Terry Zwigoff, 1994, USA) [716.63 points; 8 votes]
67. PULP FICTION (Quentin Tarantino, 1994, USA) [717.5 points; 10 votes; 1 first-place vote]
66. TOUCH OF EVIL (Orson Welles, 1958, USA) [719.33 points; 9 votes; 1 first-place vote]
65. 3 WOMEN (Robert Altman, 1977, USA) [725.3 points; 10 votes]
64. BACK TO THE FUTURE (Robert Zemeckis, 1985, USA) [728.55 points; 11 votes]
63. ALI: FEAR EATS THE SOUL (Rainer Werner Fassbinder, 1974, West Germany) [729.2 points; 10 votes; Morbs silver]
62. THE MALTESE FALCON (John Huston, 1941, USA) [733.1 points; 10 votes; Morbs silver]
61. AU HASARD BALTHAZAR (Robert Bresson, 1966, France) [734.91 points; 11 votes]
60. SUNRISE: A SONG OF TWO HUMANS (F.W. Murnau, 1927, USA) [752.6 points; 10 votes; 1 first-place vote]
59. SYNECDOCHE, NEW YORK (Charlie Kaufman, 2008, USA) [768.67 points; 9 votes]
58. GROUNDHOG DAY (Harold Ramis, 1993, USA) [772.46 points; 13 votes]
57. IMITATION OF LIFE (Douglas Sirk, 1959, USA) [774 points; 6 votes]
56. THE 400 BLOWS (François Truffaut, 1959, France) [779.33 points; 9 votes]
55. THE GRADUATE (Mike Nichols, 1967, USA) [783.33 points; 9 votes]
54. JURASSIC PARK (Steven Spielberg, 1993, USA) [786 points; 9 votes]
53. THE TEXAS CHAIN SAW MASSACRE (Tobe Hooper, 1974, USA) [788.13 points; 8 votes]
52. NOTORIOUS (Alfred Hitchcock, 1946, USA) [793.63 points; 8 votes]
51. PSYCHO (Alfred Hitchcock, 1960, USA) [793.75 points; 12 votes; Morbs silver]
50. PERSONA (Ingmar Bergman, 1966, Sweden) [805.69 points; 13 votes; 1 first-place vote]
49. MAD MAX: FURY ROAD (George Miller, 2015, Australia) [808.73 points; 11 votes]
48. POSSESSION (Andrzej Żuławski, 1981, France-West Germany) [810 points; 9 votes; 1 first-place vote]
47. FARGO (Joel & Ethan Coen, 1996, USA) [811.1 points; 10 votes]
46. SPIRITED AWAY (Miyazaki Hayao, 2001, Japan) [811.27 points; 11 votes]
45. THE THING (John Carpenter, 1982, USA) [815 points; 10 votes]
44. BLUE VELVET (David Lynch, 1986, USA) [822 points; 15 votes]
43. SANS SOLEIL (Chris Marker, 1983, France) [825.25 points; 8 votes]
42. STOP MAKING SENSE (Jonathan Demme, 1984, USA) [826.7 points; 10 votes; Morbs silver]
41. A SERIOUS MAN (Joel & Ethan Coen, 2009, USA) [830.4 points; 15 votes]
40. THE PASSION OF JOAN OF ARC (Carl Theodor Dreyer, 1928, Denmark) [833.36 points; 14 votes; Morbs silver]
39. LATE SPRING (Ozu Yasujirō, 1949, Japan) [835.45 points; 11 votes]
38. SINGIN' IN THE RAIN (Stanley Donen & Gene Kelly, 1952, USA) [841.82 points; 11 points]
37. CONTEMPT (Jean-Luc Godard, 1963, France) [845.71 points; 7 votes]
36. PLAYTIME (Jacques Tati, 1967, France) [853.27 points; 11 votes; 1 first-place vote; Morbs silver]
35. McCABE & MRS. MILLER (Robert Altman, 1971, USA) [855.6 points; 15 votes]
34. THE LONG GOODBYE (Robert Altman, 1973, USA) [865.38 points; 16 votes; Morbs silver]
33. THE EMPIRE STRIKES BACK (Irvin Kershner, 1980, USA) [872.2 points; 10 votes]
32. CHINATOWN (Roman Polanski, 1974, USA) [873.43 points; 14 votes; Morbs silver]
31. DUCK SOUP (Leo McCarey, 1933, USA) [874.64 points; 14 votes; Morbs silver]
― Milm & Foovies (Eric H.), Monday, 1 November 2021 22:36 (two years ago) link