Horse Feathers

Horse Feathers (1932) is a Marx Brothers comedy directed by Norman Z. McLeod — watch it online on iFILM. Groucho Marx plays Professor Quincy Adams Wagstaff, newly installed as president of Huxley College, a school that hasn't won a football game since 1888. His solution: hire two professional players. The men he ends up with are a dogcatcher and a bootlegger, played by Harpo and Chico.

Neither of them has any connection to football. Neither of them cares. The film packs puns, slapstick and Harpo's silent chaos into 68 minutes and doesn't stop for breath. What's remarkable is how anarchic it still feels — the brothers weren't just making jokes, they were dismantling every convention the scene was built on. Stream the full movie Horse Feathers on iFILM.