All trace of reason and logic are joyfully cast aside in this wild musical comedy starring the much-loved ‘30s comics the Marx Brothers. The story begins when the totally unqualified populist hero Rufus T. Firefly becomes dictator of the shambolic country of Freedonia, and is soon involved in a senseless war with next-door Sylvania. But all this is secondary to a series of wildly elaborate set pieces, unparalleled slapstick routines and relentless one-liners (“I got a good mind to join a club and beat you over the head with it!”). Comic genius just about covers it. D: Leo McCarey, US, 1933, 1h 8m

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