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Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: VHS Tape
EAN: 9786301221498
Format: Black & White, HiFi Sound, NTSC
ISBN: 6301221494
Label: Universal Studios
Manufacturer: Universal Studios
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Universal Studios
Release Date: March 01, 1992
Running Time: 68 minutes
Sales Rank: 14604
Studio: Universal Studios
Theatrical Release Date: August 19, 1932
Editorial Review:
Amazon.com essential video:
Imagine Groucho as the president of a college and Harpo and Chico as football players. It doesn't get much wackier than this. Horse feathers, indeed. Groucho is hilarious to watch as a hip professor. He's at his most rebellious singing 'Whatever it is, I'm against it.' Thelma Todd does some of her best vamping to help fix the big football game, which Harpo and Chico are supposed to throw. Naturally, the brothers have other ideas. For sheer laughter, this has to rate almost as high as Duck Soup, with the memorable speakeasy sequence, and the funniest football finale of all time, complete with banana peels and a chariot. --Bill Desowitz
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating: - Don't trust the iceman, he is a dog catcher
1932 has come and still the same depression and still the lack of whisky or bourbon and still the methylated spirit of moonshine trafficking on the telephone. So just invest, or dump, the four Marx brothers in a good college that is lying flat on its back in spite of all the varnish and inflating they have been doing with hot air and filling beans and you can greet the great implosion of the intellectual effete hormones of the middle-aged menopausal college professors and college widows and the latter's ... Read More
Rating: - It's enough to make me pull myself to pieces !!!
Horse Feathers stars the four Marx Brothers; and they carry this film like the champs they still remain. Thelma Todd plays the college widow with sophistication; her sense of timing during the comedy scenes equals that of the four Marx Brothers. The plot moves along at a good pace and there are plenty of laughs for everyone.
The action begins with Professor Quincy Adams Wagstaff (Groucho Marx) becoming president of Huxley College. Wagstaff disapproves of his son running around with the college ... Read More
Rating: - Only the Marx Brothers Hold Up.
I've never been a Three Stooges guy, and, frankly, I think most of the stuff from the twenties and thirties, humor wise, is utterly dated today--except for the Marx Brothers. Groucho et al remain horn and painted moustache above their peers with the only type of shtick that consistently holds up in our new century. Horse Feathers, like Duck Soup, is timeless due to the volcanic creativity of its dialogue. Groucho's cranial word play is an asset which he brings into his every scene appearance. Yes, Chico and ... Read More
Rating: - Quotable Insanity
All four Marx Brothers star in this hilarious movie set at a college. Groucho becomes the president of a college and everything goes haywire. His son Zeppo is seeing the "college widow" (Thelma Todd), so pop takes it upon himself to romance her himself to steal her away from his son! Also, he goes to a speakeasy to enlist the help of two men to make the football team better than any other. Instead, he enlists Chico and Harpo which wreaks havoc on the school. Goodbye books, goodbye plot, goodbye sanity; the Marx ... Read More
Rating:  - The Marx Brothers At Their Zaniest
To anyone who has never seen a Marx Brothers film, it's hard to describe. "Horse Feathers" just may be the wackiest, corniest, dumbest, funniest and just plain craziest movie you've ever seen. It could be any one of those adjectives. In my opinion, it's all of them. It's my favorite film of these guys.
Perhaps no film has so many of the above-listed descriptions, in spades, as this one does. It just leaves you shaking your head. Some of the lines in here are some of the best I've ever heard and some ... Read More
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