What's the problem with "Duck Soup"?

Rating: 2/10 (7 August 2008)

I have to disagree with the User Comment on the main page for this flick (by JRenee), where (s)he says, "this movie does not require ... offensive dialog to make it watchable over and over again." Because from my point of view, it does contain offensive dialog (or monologue). I refer, of course, to the racist joke Groucho tells. It's the one about the Armstrongs. The punchline was, "Then the Headstrongs met the Armstrongs, and that's where the darkies came from." I recorded this movie about twenty years ago because an associate of mine used the song "Hail Freedonia" as an example of hypocrisy. So I watched it. I was going to save it (don't tell the Copyright Office!), but because of that joke, I erased it after I viewed it.