Top cast:Mary Pickford,Charles Avery,Verner Clarges
Director:Barry Sonnenfeld
Genre:War
Region:Kuwait
Year:1999
Storyline:" She would leave the opera (she promised that she'd be back in a month in New York) to journey north into the Canadian woods backcountry with Boniface in search of her brother in the vicinity of Lac Chibougam.There are, however, a couple of musical numbers that are perfectly integrated into the plot:When the Clock on the Wall Strikes TenGroucho's song with the chorus - the Freedonia HymnJust Wait 'Til I Get Through With Itthe staged production number,The Country's Goin' o War(it was the only musical number in any of their films o feature all four of the brothers together)Why the titleDuck Soup? [Earlier in 1927, director Leo McCarey had made a two-reel Laurel and Hardy film with the same itle - and he borrowed the title from there.Besides major stars Charlton Heston and Janet Leigh, Welles easily persuaded Joseph Cotten (as a police surgeon), Marlene Dietrich (in a supporting role cameo), Mercedes McCambridge (in male drag as a member of a Mexican motorcycle gang), and Keenan Wynn to appear in the film, with the added bonus of a small cameo by Zsa Zsa Gabor.After a long pause and a trumpeters' fanfare, the anthem is sung a second time and all the guests look toward the entrance, but Firefly still fails to enter.