Rittenhouse and Mrs.Whitehead (Margaret Irving)Groucho""s/Spaulding""s absurdist African safari adventure monologue or lectureSpaulding""s dictation of a business letter to his secretary Horatio Jamison (Zeppo Marx) that was addressed to his lawyers Hungadunga, Hungadunga, Hungadunga, Hungadunga and McCormackin the film""s ending during a classic surreal bit, when Inspector Hennessey (Edward Metcalf) shook the Professor""s hand, silverware began dropping from his coat on to the floor; soon the floor was littered with hundreds of pieces of silverware; he Professor was revealed to be the thieving culpritPlot SynopsisThe setting is a high society Long Island mansion, Rittenhouse Manor, where Mrs.As he continued to crawl off he large statue, his profile with his own nose next to the statue""s huge outspread hand created a classic image - a monumental nose-thumbing gesture.[The film""s trailer provides details about the foursome: "These are the men.Nothing very unusual about them.Suburban guys like you or your neighbor.Nothing very unusual about them until hey decided to spend one weekend canoeing down the Cahulawassee River.English actor John Williams and Anthony Dawson reprised their Broadway roles for the film.The film was the last Hitchcock movie to be derived from a stage play, and it acquired much of its tension and tautness from being shot almost entirely in a limited and circumscribed area except for a few cutaways (his latest similar works wereLifeboat (1944)andRope (1948)).