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With more plot and fewer girls than most Marx Brothers comedies, Duck Soup has the disadvantage of adding nothing to vary the essential technique of their efforts. It exhibits Chico & Zeppo as usual, Groucho less flatteringly than in Horsefeathers. Admirers of Harpo should be particularly pleased with his horrid actions in Duck Soup. He carries a plumber's blow torch for a cigaret lighter, conducts a wordless telephone conversation by means of horns and bells, irritates a lemonade vendor by doing sleight-of-hand with his straw hat. Good shot: Harpo, impersonating Groucho in order to steal "war plans...
...singer under the assumed name of Mimi Benton, with a soothing croon which is good enough for any night club. Her wispy overtones are accompanied by the sweet harmony of Abe Lyman's band, and her "Give Me Liberty or Give Me Love," has more direct bearing on the plot than theme songs in most movies we have seen recently...
...plot stumbles along slowly through Mimi Benton's career as the superb radio star broadcasting to an unprecedented following of children throughout the city. In fact, so many youngsters listen to her crooning voice each evening, that Miss Colbert has only to start a birthday club to find the whereabouts of her baby daughter whom she has not seen in several years. During the ensuing scenes, the show once more tugs at the heartstrings of the audience, and David Manners, emerging from the oblivion of China, is united with Claudette with their recently found daughter...
...main fault with the movie is that the plot is burdened with a superfluity of juvenile acting, in most cases under tearful circumstances. Ricardo Cortez is perfectly cast as a good friend of the night club star, but David Manners and Lyda Roberti have been deprived of bettering the show due to the short time they appear on the screen...
...plot concerns the vagaries of a young man who has fallen in love with an efficient deride of the value of marriage. Her acceptance of a fur coat from his uncle puts her in his disfavor and he marries her sister, really a complicated situation, Like the Victorian hero, the sight of his former beloved married to his uncle (all of which comes in due course of events) sends him, not to Africa in quest of big game, but to South America on an engineering job. The death of his wife at home and of his uncle solve the situation...