My favorite anarchic comedians are the Marx brothers. Of all their movies, I liked 1933's Duck Soup, the crazed, anti-war political satire, the best. All of their movies were really excuses to present comic bits. Some of the bits were recreations of movie skits created by Buster Keaton; he even helped them, without credit, perform them well. Other bits seem to have been taken from vaudeville scenes.
A year earlier, in 1932, the Marx madness was seen in Horse Feathers, the studio's (Paramount) highest-grossing film of the year. In the film there is a scene set at the door to a speakeasy. From 1920–1933, it was illegal to manufacture or sell alcohol in the U.S. During this time, known
