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After three viewings, you may be able to remember that "Horsefeathers" is the one in which Chico, Harpo, Groucho, and Zeppo careen through Huxley College in a garbage-wagon chariot, among other conveyances. In "Monkey Business' the Marx boys plague the captain, crew, and passengers of an ocean liner like four hyper-thyroid Nemeses. But plots count for nothing when the Marx Brothers are around. In fact, everything counts for nothing--except unending hysterical laughter--when the Marx Brothers are around...
Partly Whipped Cream. Most West Germans live only about half as well as they did in 1936; most refugees live half as well as the West Germans. Old residents and refugees alike are incited by the spectacle of a few rich postwar profiteers who careen about the countryside in fine American cars and gorge on expensive delicacies. Said one German publisher as he watched a group of such well-fed Burger in a garish Frankfurt cafe: "This country is partly a whipped-cream paradise, but mostly a poor farm...
They also found themselves imitating their master's mannerisms. They scribbled furiously on the nearest blackboard, talked in soft, deep tones, combed agitated fingers through tousled hair, grunted an excited "Ja, Ja" or a nervous "Hunh, Hunh." They learned to careen along with a perpetual, preoccupied stoop; some even took up chain-smoking and blue shirts...
...Atlanta, four teen-agers went on a spree, released the brakes of some 24 cars just to watch them careen downhill and crash...
Roger Touhy, Gangster (20th Century-Fox) is a double-helping of nostalgia for cinemaddicts who remember some of the most exciting U.S. movies ever made, such gangster films as Underworld, Drag Net, Public Enemy, Little Caesar. Here, as in the old days, sedans careen fiercely, eyes go deadly at the business-ends of tommyguns, actors circle each other tensely, growling like enraged tom cats, and the iron, melancholic beauty of U.S. city streets and interiors is appreciated as it seldom is in gentler films. Yet taken all in all, Touhy isn't really a very good show...