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Animal Crackers

Animal Crackers

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19306.91h 38m

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.

Directed by Victor Heerman
Written by George S. Kaufman, Morrie Ryskind, Bert Kalmar
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Top Cast

Groucho Marx

Groucho Marx

Captain Jeffrey T. Spaulding

Harpo Marx

Harpo Marx

The Professor

Chico Marx

Chico Marx

Signor Emanuel Ravelli

Zeppo Marx

Zeppo Marx

Horatio Jamison

Lillian Roth

Lillian Roth

Arabella Rittenhouse

Margaret Dumont

Margaret Dumont

Mrs. Rittenhouse

Louis Sorin

Louis Sorin

Roscoe Chandler

Hal Thompson

Hal Thompson

John Parker

Margaret Irving

Margaret Irving

Mrs. Whitehead

Kathryn Reece

Kathryn Reece

Grace Carpenter

Themes & Keywords

musicalbased on play or musicalwhodunitblack and whitepre-code

About Animal Crackers

Animal Crackers is a comedy, music film released in 1930 exploring themes of musical, based on play or musical, whodunit, black and white, pre-code. Directed by Victor Heerman, it stars Groucho Marx, Harpo Marx, Chico Marx. 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.

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