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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.Read moreLess
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.
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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.
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Groucho MarxCaptain Jeffrey T. Spaulding
Harpo MarxThe Professor
Chico MarxSignor Emanuel Ravelli
Zeppo MarxHoratio Jamison
Lillian RothArabella Rittenhouse
Margaret DumontMrs. Rittenhouse
Louis SorinRoscoe Chandler
Hal ThompsonJohn Parker
Margaret IrvingMrs. Whitehead
Kathryn ReeceGrace Carpenter
Robert GreigHives
Edward MetcalfHennesseyExplore the crew
- Director
- Victor Heerman
- Screenplay
- Morrie Ryskind
- Original Music Composer
- Max Reese
- Director of Photography
- George J. Folsey
- Writer
- George S. Kaufman