The lost Marx Brothers movie?

Question

Provide the name, the characters and plot of the Marx Brothers movie you wish had been made.

Think wish fulfillment....

Answer 1

I loved the original The Producers with Zero Mostel and Gene Wilder so much that the Marx Brothers should have gotten there first. I can see Groucho as Max Bialystock, Zeppo as Leo Bloom, Chico as Franz liebkind and Harpo as Lorenzo St. Dubois. If Mel Brooks had just been born earlier!!

Answer 2

Found the following info on the web about the Marx Brothers 1st movie.

Humor Risk (1921) was the first (but never released) Marx Brothers film, and is listed by the Internet Movie Database as lost. It may have been destroyed by Groucho, who is said to have burnt the negative after a particularly bad premiere screening. It is also said that the print was accidentally thrown away when left in the screening box overnight.

All four Marx Brothers are known to have been in this short film. It was the last film directed by Dick Smith (1886-1937), and the first film written by Jo Swerling who later co-wrote films such as It's a Wonderful Life, Gone with the Wind, and others.

Information about the film's premise is sparse. Its title was "apparently a spoof of the then-popular drama Humoresque, one of the biggest film hits of 1920." In addition, "the brothers were working separately rather than as a team" and did not incorporate their trademark comic personalities that they would later become famous for. Harpo played the hero, a detective named Watson who "made his entrance in a high hat, sliding down a coal chute into the basement." Groucho played an "old movie" villain, who "sported a long moustache and was clad in black." Chico was probably his "chuckling [Italian] henchman." Zeppo portrayed a playboy who was the owner of a nightclub in which most of the action, including "a cabaret, [which allowed] the inclusion of a dance number," took place. The final shot "showed Groucho, in ball and chain, trudging slowly off into the gloaming." Harpo, in a rare moment of romantic glory, evidently gets the girl in the end. (Source)

Humor Risk is sometimes confused with another Marx Brothers film project from 1926 which also never reached the screen. The Marx Brothers finally broke into motion pictures with 1929's The Cocoanuts.

Answer 3

I'm a huge Marx Bros. fan and love all their movies - I've seen 'em all: Love Happy, A Day at the Races, A Night at the Opera, Monkey Business, Horsefeathers, Duck Soup - you name it, I've seen 'em. l love all those old comedians - Charlie Chaplin, Buster Keaton, Abbott and Costello, Laurel and Hardy, The Little Rascals, The Stooges - oh yes - good ol' classic comedy - can't beat 'em!

Do you mean a remake of a Marx Bros. movie or any movie that we would have liked to see them in? Don't quite understand your question. Thanks.

Answer 4

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