Duck Soup

Leo McCarey · 1933 CE · Film · Modern / American · Modernist

Bankrupt Freedonia gets a rich widow's loan on condition that Rufus Firefly is made its leader, and a neighbouring ambassador sends two spies whose incompetence takes both countries to war over a forgotten insult. The mirror sequence, one man in a nightshirt matching another through an empty doorframe, runs almost without dialogue. A failure that ended their Paramount contract and is now their most argued-over work.

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