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  • Horse Feathers

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    Duck Soup  (1933)

    Horse Feathers  (1932)

    Horse Feathers

    I looooooove the Marx Brothers.  All their stuff gets top ratings from me, well all of them I've seen at least.  I haven't gotten to the last few which I heard might not be as well.  But Horse Feathers fits in just wonderfully amongst their best.

    Like usual hilarious wordplay and well played visual gags, especially on the football field.  Football games always seem prime fodder for all kinds of visual gags.  When they try to pull off Harpo's shirt and it just keeps getting longer and longer.  It might be about the simplest, stupidest joke you could come up with, but it's absolutely side-splitting.

    I'm always surprised when I remember how short some of these movies are though.  This one is only 1 hour and 8 minutes.  And it's the same running time for my favorite of their movies, Duck Soup.

    Just one more thing, does anyone out there have any idea what the phrase "horse feathers" even means?  Does it have anything to do with football?  Or is it just nonsense?  Leave me a comment if you know.

    Rating: 10/10


  • Oliver!

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    Oliver!  (1968)

    Oliver!

    I've never read any Dickens that I can recall, but I just love watching any different version of Oliver or A Christmas Carol.  I should probably check out some of his other works and adaptations as well.

    And I don't normally go mad for musicals, but I think this is one of my favorite.  However this is very likely because I played trombone in the pit orchestra for my high school production of this show, and I had a lot of friends who were in it.  I remember seeing this movie when I was quite a bit younger as well, and remembered enjoying it.

    I think the original creators of the musical did a fine job of taking a wonderful yet actually quite depressing and gruesome story and putting in some amazingly catchy songs to it.  And Carol Reed's production of this musical presents the show quite aptly.

    I think I may buy the soundtrack and put it on my iPod.  It would be the first musical soundtrack on there.

    Rating: 9/10


 


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