![]() There is still a lot of great comedy to be found in this one. I wish they could have found a way to make him more defiant, but perhaps I'm just nitpicking. My only other complaint about the film is Groucho running away from the law like a coward because he's a horse doctor instead of a human one. An unnecessary flavor, as I said, but an entertaining one. The combination Negro spiritual, swing, jazz and dancing is really awesome and does add a unique flavor to the film. ![]() I have to admit, as unnecessary as the scene was to the film, it does have its entertainment value. After that, we get Harpo as Gabriel, being the pied piper to African Americans the world over. Then much later on in the film we get the romantic couple singing a tender song after one of the great all-time Marx comedy scenes (more on that later), kind of ruining the comic flow a bit. ![]() I don't think anybody would argue the lavish MGM style song and dance number on those floating clamshell thing-a-ma-bobs, or whatever the heck it was, could have been trimmed. At one hour forty nine minutes, this is definitely a longer Marx film, and it definitely could have used a little trimming. ![]() So close to another classic, but not quite. ![]()
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