Animal Crackers (movie)

Animal Crackers is a 1930 pre-code comedy movie starring the Marx Brothers in their second film. The movie adapts their 1928 stage play of the same name, and features Groucho Marx in one of his iconic characters, Captain Jeffrey T. Spaulding. The film entered the public domain in 2026.

Plot

Captain Spaulding is returning from Africa to a lavish reception of Mrs. Rittenhouse (Margaret Dumont). Also at the reception is Roscoe W. Chandler displaying his painting "After the Hunt" by Beaugard. However, two different versions of the painting exist, and and the original is missing.

Cast

  • Groucho Marx as Captain Jeffrey T. Spaulding
  • Harpo Marx as The Professor
  • Chico Marx as Signor Emanuel Ravelli
  • Zeppo Marx as Horatio Jamison
  • Lillian Roth as Arabella Rittenhouse
  • Margaret Dumont as Mrs. Rittenhouse
  • Louis Sorin as Roscoe W. Chandler
  • Hal Thompson as John Parker
  • Margaret Irving as Mrs. Whitehead
  • Kathryn Reece as Grace Carpenter
  • Robert Greig as Hives, the Rittenhouse butler
  • Edward Metcalf as Inspector Hennessey
  • The Music Masters as Six Footmen

Continuity

Several cuts were made to the film in subsequent years. In 1936 it was re released and approximately a minute and a half were missing from the original, with cuts including the line "I think I'll try and make her" from "Hooray for Captain Spaulding"; a scene where Harpo pulls a female guest's slip out from under her dress with his teeth; and Groucho telling a joke about a "shotgun wedding."

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