Top cast:Tom Santschi,Betty Harte,Frank Richardson
Director:Anthony Minghella
Genre:Music
Region:South Korea
Year:2014
Storyline:]Johnny is antagonistic (and jealous) toward both Gilda AND Mundson because the humorless, controlling husband maintains him as a kept-man, and because she is a gold-digger in an unloving relationship.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.It garnered seven Academy Award nominations, including Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actor (Walter Huston, recreating his earlier stage role, who should have won the Oscar with his sensitive portrayal against winner Paul Muni forThe Story of Louis Pasteur (1936)), Best Screenplay, Best Supporting Actress (Maria Ouspenskaya, reprising her role from the earlier stage production, and in her film debut), and Best Sound Recording, and won only one Oscar for Best Art Direction-Interior Decoration.Other crew members onboard included pilot/helmsman Hikaru Sulu (John Cho), and Russian-accented Pavel Chekov (Anton Yelchin) - and the ship was directed at warp speed toward Vulcan, which in its distress call had reported natural disasters including a "lightning storm" and seismic activity...like epoxy" that when mixed became volatile.Two thousand pounds of the bomb substance had been stolen from Livermore Labs over the previous weekend.