At the Circus (1939)
6/10
The BEST Marx Brothers Move EVER!!!
25 January 2005
Ha ha! Made ya look! This is certainly NOT the best Marx brothers movie...or the second best...or the fifth best. But, it is better than Love Happy, Go West and The Big Store. And, there are funny lines like, "Bad luck...three on a midget"; moreover, Groucho sings "Lydia", a song he would later sing at Carnegie Hall.

Margaret Dumont is looking kind of old in this one. She still has class in her role as stuffy socialite. I found myself, when she had her buttocks stuck in a cannon, thinking to myself, "For God's sake, leave the poor old girl alone, won't you?".

Eve Arden is appropriately evil. The romantic male and female leads are appropriately forgettable. All in all, a mediocre film.

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