Cracker!Love, love , love the Marx Brothers - Groucho is a legend... watched the sanity clause sketch the other day.
They always said that they didn't write their material, the audience did (as they toured Vaudeville and tried different gags out)Proper Sunday afternoon film.
Sad to say but I'm with smutchin on that. I loved the Marx Bros films when they were shown daily as Xmas fare back in the 70's, I read books on them and I even had a Groucho shirt ( thinking about it now it was a bizarre fashion trend but go back to 1974 and the Kop would have been full of 13/14/15 year olds with repeat pattern shirts with fly away collars of old film stars like Groucho, Laurel & Hardy, Chaplin, James Dean etc - usually in brown on a beige background ) - I tried to watch a couple of their films recently and was horrified at how badly they'd aged. Nowhere near as bad as how Abbot & Costello films have aged mind - god, from thinking Lou Costello was hilarious when I was a kid I now think he might quite possibly be the unfunniest 'comedian' ever. Then again at one point I'd have put Maltese Falcon as one of my top 10 films ever but watching it recently... jeez. I still love loads of films from that era but I dread to think what youngsters (anyone under the age of 50
) would think watching it now as one of the recognised greatest films of all time . Maybe that's a theme for another thread = films that've aged well v those that haven't.
On a brighter note - much thanks to Damian Omen V for posting that link earlier upthread - I scrolled through it and came across 'It's Such A Beautiful Day' - in my case it's not a forgotten film but a 'never heard of before' film... and wow, I downloaded it and it blew me away. I'm not normally into animation but it was amazing. Bill is now one of my most favourite film characters ever. He may just be a stickman but I
wanted to reach into the screen and give him a big hug. I went through almost as many different emotions watching it as Istanbul 25/05/05.
