1h 20min | Comedy, Musical, Western | 6 December 1940
Director: Edward Buzzell
Writer: Irving Brecher (original screenplay)
Stars: Groucho Marx, Chico Marx, Harpo Marx.
Bobby Connolly ... dances (uncredited) [what dances?]
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0032536/
Lots of songs and silliness.
Groucho and Chico negotiate, this time with Harpo enhancing the results: Groucho sells them a hat and coat, but they pay with a $10 bill on a string, and the items cost only $1 each. Somehow a 3rd transaction is added, and Harpo has to get more extreme to retrieve that $10 bill.
Chico plays the piano, Harpo "plays the harp" (actually a loom, and this is NOT the instrument making the sound, because you see strings vibrate at the high end which are actually much longer that would make the high sound.)
The plot involves a land deal with a railroad company, and who's got the deed to that land. Bad guys want to sell their own land to the railroad, so they try to sabotage the transaction. And this is no bookkeeping sabotage: we get a wild non-stop train, and the MB become the engineers (with Groucho trying to read the manual as they go.)
It works for me. (Not sure why we have a dance director. Really. I just FFWD'd through the whole thing, and no dances.)
MGM, dir. Buzzell; 7
