Why don't you go home to your wife? I'll tell you what, I'll go home to your wife, and outside of the improvement she'll never know the difference.
This is the first Marx Brothers film to actually attempt a solid storyline throughout. The plot centers around Professor Wagstaff (played by Groucho) taking over as President of Huxley college. His son convinces him to hire a couple of "ringers" to defeat Darwin college in the rival football game. When he mistakenly hires two misfits (Harpo and Chico), he enlists their help in kidnapping Darwin's best players instead.
Highlights include a classic scene where Groucho attempts to enter a speakeasy to hire the players (password: swordfish), Zeppo's best performance of the movies trying to woo the college widow (whatever that is...), and a climactic football game involving cigars, cheating throughout, and a makeshift chariot race finale...
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