The marx brothers – chico, groucho, harpo and zeppo – are one of the cornerstones of american comedy. Starting out in vaudeville, they conquered broadway and the big screen in their own inimitable style, at once innovative, irreverent, anarchic, physical, musical, ludicrous and hilarious.with the advent of the 'talkies', the brothers signed to paramount pictures and brought their stage act to cinema audiences. They made five films in five years, all of which are collected here the cocoanuts 1929, animal crackers 1930, monkey business 1931, horse feathers 1932 and one of the greatest comedies of all time, duck soup 1933.the paramount era represents the marx brothers at their absolute finest, retaining all of the energy and controlled chaos of their stage shows. Plots are unimportant – it's the gags, set pieces and one liners that matter why a duck? , hello, i must be going , hooray for captain spaulding , that's the bunk! , horse feathers' swordfish scene and classic mirror sequence in duck soup.special featureshigh definition blu ray 1080p presentations of all five features, each scanned and restored in 4k from original film elements by universaloriginal 1.0 mono audiooptional english subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearingcommentary on the cocoanuts by film scholar anthony slidecommentary on animal crackers by film historian jeffrey vancecommentary on monkey business by marx brothers historian robert s bader and bill marx, son of harpo marxcommentary on horse feathers by film critic fx feeneycommentary on duck soup by bader and film critic leonard maltinthe marx brothers hollywood's kings of chaos, a feature length documentary containing interviews with leonard maltin, dick cavett and others three excerpts from nbc's the today show featuring interviews with harpo marx, groucho marx and bill marxsibling revelry, an introduction to the marx brothers by critic david cairnsmonkeynutcrackerduckfeathers, a video essay about the films by david cairns