HORSE FEATHERS

The Marx Brothers; Thelma Todd

Universal Pictures; Directed by Norman McLeod

Black and White; Not Rated; 68 minutes; 1932

, VHS

HORSE FEATHERS has been called the first Marx Brothers film to realize or satirize the period. In the opening scene, Groucho, as college president Quincy Adams Wagstaff, defines the credo in the witty song, "I'm Against It." The film includes a hilarious biology lecture by Groucho, Chico, and Harpo as a pair of unlikely athletes and the frenzied football finale, involving chariots, hot dogs, banana skins, elastic bands, and countless footballs.