In my estimation and I do love the antics of The Boys, they had one more quality film ahead of them – A Day at the Races (1937), which I believe has superb extant film elements. It’s derived from a duplicate printing negative, and is therefore presumably third generation. They had moved to M-G-M in Culver City for A Night at the Opera, hence this Warner Archive release, and appeared in another four films, as well as Room Service for RKO. In 1931 they moved west, and continued their Paramount series with Horse Feathers (1932) and Duck Soup (1933). The Brothers Marx began their feature film career at the Paramount Astoria Studios in Queens, NY in 1929 with The Coconuts, and followed with Animal Crackers (also Astoria) in 1930. So what we have is the 1948 cut of the 1935 film featuring three of the four Marx Brothers, affectionately known to fans as “The Boys.” Someone took a cleaver to it, whilst removing five minutes of mayhem. When Sam Wood’s Marx Bros epic was re-released in 1948, it wasn’t gingerly re-edited.
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