Animal Crackers (movie)

Animal Crackers is a 1930 pre-code comedy movie starring the Marx Brothers in their second film. The movie adapts their 1928 stage play of the same name, and features Groucho Marx in one of his iconic characters, Captain Jeffrey T. Spaulding. The film entered the public domain in 2026.

 Plot 
Captain Spaulding is returning from Africa to a lavish reception of Mrs. Rittenhouse (Margaret Dumont). Also at the reception is Roscoe W. Chandler displaying his painting "After the Hunt" by Beaugard. However, two different versions of the painting exist, and and the original is missing. 

 Cast 

 Groucho Marx as Captain Jeffrey T. Spaulding
 Harpo Marx as The Professor
 Chico Marx as Signor Emanuel Ravelli
 Zeppo Marx as Horatio Jamison
 Lillian Roth as Arabella Rittenhouse
 Margaret Dumont as Mrs. Rittenhouse
 Louis Sorin as Roscoe W. Chandler
 Hal Thompson as John Parker
 Margaret Irving as Mrs. Whitehead
 Kathryn Reece as Grace Carpenter
 Robert Greig as Hives, the Rittenhouse butler
 Edward Metcalf as Inspector Hennessey
 The Music Masters as Six Footmen


 Continuity 
Several cuts were made to the film in subsequent years. In 1936 it was re released and approximately a minute and a half were missing from the original, with cuts including the line "I think I'll try and make her" from "Hooray for Captain Spaulding"; a scene where Harpo pulls a female guest's slip out from under her dress with his teeth; and Groucho telling a joke about a "shotgun wedding."

Category:1930
Category:Movies