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Paramount-Publix Corp., 1931.
Directed by Norman McLeod. Camera: Arthur Todd. With Groucho Marx, Chico Marx, Harpo Marx,
Zeppo Marx, Rockliffe Fellowes, Harry Woods,
Thelma Todd, Tom Kennedy,
Ruth Hall, Douglass Dumbrille. |
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Four stowaways, Groucho, Harpo, Chico and Zeppo,
are discovered aboard a luxury liner and are chased for the entire voyage by
Captain Corcoran and his crew. At various times during the chase,
Harpo becomes part of a Punch and Judy show, and Chico and Harpo impersonate
the barber.
Groucho hides in a closet in gangster Alky
Briggs's stateroom and, when he emerges from the closet, he finds Lucille,
Briggs's wife, alone and flirts with her. Briggs suddenly comes in
and, after Zeppo also bursts into the room, Briggs hires Groucho and Zeppo
as his bodyguards.
Meanwhile, Chico and Harpo wander into rival
gangleader Joe Helton's room to play a game of chess and become his
bodyguards. Briggs enters Helton's stateroom and announces his
takeover of Helton's territory, but Helton orders him out, with the help of
Chico and Harpo.
Groucho later hires himself out to Helton as his
personal bodyguard in an attempt to baffle logic. When the ocean liner
docks, the stowaways try to impersonate singer Maurice Chevalier, whose
passport Zeppo stole, but are unsuccessful.
When a man faints, the stowaways hide in his
stretcher and are carried off the ship. Later, Mary Helton is
kidnapped at her coming-out party by Briggs's men and is held in the barn.
Because Briggs has told Groucho of his plan, Groucho and the boys warn
Helton and then go to the barn. A fight ensues, during which Zeppo
rescues Mary and later knocks Briggs out just as Helton arrives. |
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