Edmund Breese

Lost in the Stratosphere -- Two military pilots are close friends, and share in a lot of hazardous missions while engaging in a series of good-natured romantic rivalries...

Laughing at Life -- Easter, a soldier of fortune and gunrunner, leaves his family behind escaping from the authorities and an American detective named Mason...

A newspaper reporter marries into a wealthy family, only to find that he really loves someone else.

A room full of german schoolboys are goaded by their schoolmaster to troop off to the glorious war in 1914 and set off to become soldiers. Their disenchantment begins with brutal basic training and then, as they board the train to the front , they see the crippled being rushed to hospital. It is their first glimpse on the grim-visaged reality of war. In the trenches, one by one the boys begin to fall.

Thanks to the patronage of well-heeled widow Mrs. Teasdale (Margaret Dumont), Rufus T. Firefly (Groucho Marx) becomes dictator of the tiny country of Freedonia. But when the ambassador of the bordering nation of Sylvania declares his love for Mrs. Teasdale, Firefly declares war. The Marx Brothers are at their sidesplitting best in this raucous political satire, in which Chico, Harpo and Zeppo co-star as spies and counterspies.

A soldier of fortune flees to South America where he ends up leading a group of revolutionaries.

A pointed political satire, Duck Soup is the Marx Brothers' funniest and most insane film.

A soldier of fortune flees to South America where he ends up leading a group of revolutionaries.

A pointed political satire, Duck Soup is the Marx Brothers' funniest and most insane film.

A pointed political satire, Duck Soup is the Marx Brothers' funniest and most insane film. Groucho is Rufus T. Firefly, the hilarious dictator of mythical Freedonia. Harpo and Chico are commissioned as spies by Groucho's political rival, the calculating Trentino (Louis Calhern). The film contains many of the Brothers' famous sequences: the lemonade stand, a masterpiece of slow burn; the Paul Revere parody; the "We're Going To War" number, a beautiful spoof of '30s musicals; the hilarious mirror scene; and a final battle episode that has been copied by everyone from Woody Allen to Mad Magazine.

Groucho Marx is Rufus T. Firefly, the hilarious dictator of mythical Freedonia. Pinky (Harpo Marx) and Chicolini (Chico Marx) are commissioned as spies by Groucho's political rival, the calculating Trentino (Louis Calhern).

Laughing at Life -- A soldier of fortune flees to South America where he ends up leading a group of revolutionaries.