The Friday all-nighters of the Marx Brothers and Humphrey Bogart classics were usually packed to the rafters.

From 11.15pm the late-night cinema club showed cult films such as Performance, audacious double bills featuring Chabrol, Kurosawa and other greats of world cinema and obscure but daring fare like Henry Miller’s Quiet Days in Clichy. It showed critically acclaimed, mainly US second-run classics by day (the first double bill I attended as a 15-year-old was The Graduate and The Thomas Crown Affair). When Freedonia's new president, Rufus T.R omaine Hart gave me my start in the film business, hiring me as an usher at the Screen on the Green cinema in Islington, London, when I was 18 alongside the programmer Roger Austin she taught me fundamental lessons about cinema management that inspired me through the Other Cinema, Scala and later Palace years.Īs a teenager I had witnessed the transformation of my local, the Rex cinema on Upper Street, a downmarket fleapit that was part of a declining chain owned by the Bloom family (Romaine’s maiden name), to the Screen on the Green, with its progressive and clever programming. The new president of Huxley College, Professor Quincy Adams Wagstaff, recruits a pair of football players - at least he thinks they are football players - for the big game against a rival school.

When a quartet of stowaways get mixed up with gangsters and a kidnapping during an ocean voyage, they attempt to foil the bad guys in improbable fashion. Filled with unforgettable comedy sketches, musical numbers, witty dialogue and plenty of gags, this must-own collection includes The Cocoanuts, Animal Crackers, Monkey Business, Horse Feathers and their most popular film, Duck Soup.Ī missing necklace and a pair of shady guests interfere with a hotel manager's romantic pursuit of a wealthy guest and a Florida land auction.Ī stolen painting and a couple of shady musicians cannot stop guests at a weekend party from singing 'Hooray for Captian Spaulding' when the famous African explorer arrives.

The Marx Brothers Collection captures the very best of the comedy team and includes 5 movies that includes all four brothers. From their early days in Vaudeville and on Broadway through their wildly popular motion pictures, The Marx Brothers kept audiences of all ages laughing out loud with some of the most hilarious routines ever imagined. The Marx Brothers - Groucho, Harpo, Chico and Zeppo - are the reigning kings of comedy chaos and remain one of the most iconic comedy teams of all time.

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