Animal Crackers
The maddest comics of them all!
1930 · 1h 38m · G
Comedy, Music
Directed by
Victor Heerman
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Animal Crackers
Overview
The well-known explorer and hunter Captain Spaulding has just returned from Africa, and is being welcomed home with a lavish party at the estate of influential society matron Mrs. Rittenhouse when a valuable painting goes missing. The intrepid Captain Spaulding attempts to solve the crime with the help of his silly secretary Horatio Jamison, while sparring with the anarchic Signor Emanuel Ravelli and his nutty sidekick The Professor.
Director and cast
- Victor Heerman Director
- 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 Chandler
- Hal Thompson as John Parker
- Margaret Irving as Mrs. Whitehead
- Kathryn Reece as Grace Carpenter
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