Animal Crackers (1930)
The maddest comics of them all!
97 min
The well-known explorer and hunter Captain Spaulding has just returned from Africa, and is being welcomed home with a lavish party at the estate of influential society matron Mrs. Rittenhouse when a valuable painting goes missing. The intrepid Captain Spaulding attempts to solve the crime with the help of his silly secretary Horatio Jamison, while sparring with the anarchic Signor Emanuel Ravelli and his nutty sidekick The Professor.
- Release date
- August 8, 1930
- Country of origin
- United States
Trailer
Cast
- Groucho Marx as Captain Geoffrey T. Spaulding
- Harpo Marx as The Professor
- Chico Marx as Signor Emanuel Ravelli
- The Marx Brothers
- Zeppo Marx as Horatio Jamison
- Lillian Roth as Arabella Rittenhouse
- Margaret Dumont as Mrs. Rittenhouse
- Louis Sorin as Roscoe W. Chandler
- Hal Thompson as John Parker
- Margaret Irving as Mrs. Whitehead
Crew
- Victor Heerman · Director
- George S. Kaufman · Writer
- Morrie Ryskind · Writer
- Bert Kalmar · Writer
- Harry Ruby · Writer
- Walter Wanger · Producer
- George J. Folsey · Cinematographer