Animal Crackers (film)
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Animal Crackers is a 1930 film in which mayhem and zaniness ensue when a valuable painting goes missing during a party in honor of famed African explorer Captain Spaulding.
- Directed by Victor Heerman. Adapted from the play written by George S. Kaufman, Morrie Ryskind, Bert Kalmar, and Harry Ruby.
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Captain Spaulding [edit]
- [to Mrs. Rittenhouse] Why, you're one of the most beautiful women I've ever seen, and that's not saying much for you.
- [singing] Hello, I must be going.
I cannot stay, I came to say,
I must be going.
I'm glad I came, but just the same
I must be going.
- [to audience] Pardon me while I have a strange interlude. Why, you couple of baboons! What makes you think I'd marry either one of you! Strange how the wind blows tonight. It has a tintity voice, reminds me of poor old Moslin. How happy I could be with either of these two if both of them just went away!
- One morning, I shot an elephant in my pajamas. How he got in my pajamas I don't know. Then we tried to remove the tusks. The tusks. That's not so easy to say, tusks. You try that some time...As I say, we tried to remove the tusks, but they were embedded in so firmly that we couldn't bust them. Of course, in Alabama, the Tusk-a-loosa. But, uh, that's entirely ir-elephant to what I was talking about. We took some pictures of the native girls, but they weren't developed. But we're going back again in a couple of weeks.
- Bolded portion ranked #53 in the American Film Institute's list of the top 100 movie quotations in American cinema.
- I don't like Junior crossing the tracks on his way to the reform school. I don't like Junior at all, as a matter of fact.
- Signor Ravelli's first selection will be "Somewhere My Love Lies Sleeping", with a male chorus.
- Take the Professor's hat and coat and send for the fumigators.
- You ought to brush up your Greek, Jamison. Well, get a Greek and brush up on him.
- You know I could rent you out as a decoy for duck hunters.
Others [edit]
- Signor Emanuel Ravelli: [about playing bridge] How do you want to play...honest?
Dialogue [edit]
- Guests: Hooray for Captain Spaulding, the African explorer!
- Spaulding: Did someone call me schnorrer?
- Guests: Hooray, hooray, hooray!
- Guests: He put all his reliance
In courage and defiance
And risked his life for science. - Spaulding: Hey, hey!
- Mrs. Rittenhouse: He is the only white man who covered every acre...
- Spaulding: I think I'll try and make her...
- Guests: Hooray, hooray, hooray!
Cast [edit]
- Groucho Marx - Captain Jeffrey T. Spaulding
- Harpo Marx - The Professor
- Chico Marx - Signor Emanuel Ravelli
- Zeppo Marx - Horatio Jamison
- Lillian Roth - Arabella Rittenhouse
- Margaret Dumont - Mrs. Rittenhouse
- Louis Sorin - Roscoe W. Chandler
- Hal Thompson - John Parker
- Margaret Irving - Mrs. Whitehead
- Kathryn Reece - Grace Carpenter
- Robert Greig - Hives, the Butler
- Edward Metcalf - Inspector Hennessy
External links [edit]
- Animal Crackers quotes at the Internet Movie Database
- Animal Crackers at Rotten Tomatoes
- Animal Crackers at Filmsite.org
