New Year’s Day Marx Brothers Marathon!

Name: New Year’s Day Marx Brothers Marathon!
Start: 2025-01-01T12:00:00-05:00
End: 2025-01-01T21:30:00-05:00
Location: Brattle Theatre

Schedule

Wed Jan 01 2025 at 12:00 pm to 09:30 pm

UTC-05:00

Location

Brattle Theatre | Cambridge, MA

Our annual Marx Brothers Marathon returns with a quadruple feature of anarchic hijinks featuring the Brothers taking on roles that range from heads of state to Broadway producers… but you can be sure that no matter where they start, Groucho, Chico, and Harpo will somehow end up on top!
A NIGHT AT THE OPERA • 12:00, 8:00 • DCP
1935 • dir Sam Wood w/The Marx Bros, Margaret Dumont • 96 min • DCP
Hands down one of the Brothers’ most enjoyable films, the trio find themselves helping an aspiring opera singer stick it to a pompous rival.
brattlefilm.org/movies/a-night-at-the-opera/
ROOM SERVICE • 2:15 • 35mm
1938 • dir William A. Seiter w/The Marx Bros, Lucille Ball, Ann Miller, Frank Albertson • 78 min • 35mm
Broke Gordon Miller tries to land a backer for his new play while he has to deal with the hotel manager trying to evict him and his cast.
brattlefilm.org/movies/room-service/
ANIMAL CRACKERS • 4:00 • 35mm
1930 • dir Victor Heerman w/The Marx Bros, Margaret Dumont, Lillian Roth • 97 min • 35mm
Groucho plays a famous explorer whose welcome home party is disturbed by the theft of a priceless painting in this outrageous, anarchic comedy.
brattlefilm.org/movies/animal-crackers/
DUCK SOUP • 6:15 • 35mm
1933 • dir Leo McCarey w/The Marx Bros, Margaret Dumont, Louis Callhern • 69 min • 35mm
The Marx Brothers’ first real masterpiece features Groucho as the disastrously unprepared leader of a country on the eve of war.
brattlefilm.org/movies/duck-soup/