Universal Studios Home Entertainment will release on Blu-ray The Marx Brothers Silver Screen Collection. The three-disc box set will be available for purchase on October 18.
All five films in the collection have been recently restored by Universal.
SPECIAL FEATURES:
Disc 1 - The Cocoanuts: Feature Commentary with Film Historian Anthony Slide Disc 1 - Animal Crackers: Feature Commentary with Film Historian Jeffrey Vance Disc 2 - Monkey Business: Commentary with Marx Bros. Historian/Author Robert S. Bader and Bill Marx Disc 2 - Horse Feathers: Feature Commentary with Film Critic F.X. Feeney Disc 3 - Duck Soup: Commentary with Film Critic/Historian Leonard Maltin and Marx Bros. Historian/Author Robert S. Bader Inside the NBC Vault - Today Show Interviews
I haven't bought these movies since VHS days. I remember that "Animal Crackers" (maybe others?) were crudely censored on the tape by making actual cuts to the film prints that were transferred. One I remember specifically was during the "Hooray for Captain Spaulding" number. Margaret Dumont sings "He's the only white man who . . ." and then the next line is lost to history. Have complete prints been found or repaired/restored since I last bought them in the 1990s?
I haven't bought these movies since VHS days. I remember that "Animal Crackers" (maybe others?) were crudely censored on the tape by making actual cuts to the film prints that were transferred. One I remember specifically was during the "Hooray for Captain Spaulding" number. Margaret Dumont sings "He's the only white man who . . ." and then the next line is lost to history. Have complete prints been found or repaired/restored since I last bought them in the 1990s?
I read on another site that the line is now complete & so is Groucho's answer.
I actually prefer the films they made for MGM, if not as good as the earlier ones, but as they're with Warner it could be a very long wait.
