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Wagstaff's misguided attempt to buy (recruit) two football players, Mullen and McHardie (Jim Pierce and Nat Pendleton) at the speakeasy, and ending up with Pinky and Baravelli, to play the big game between Huxley and Darwin
The only way to save the establishment is to hire a couple of good football players, Mullen and McHardie (Jim Pierce and Nat Pendleton), who hang out at the local speakeasy. With his usual efficiency, Professor Wagstaff signs up the wrong men for the Huxley team: Baravelli (Chico Marx), the ice man/bootlegger, and Pinky (Harpo Marx) the dog ...
Nat Pendleton plays one of the football players on the opposing team. Look out for Walter Brennan as a commentator on the big game. Some funny tunes and several great gags, including "The password is swordfish," the crazy football game, Groucho teaching a class, and all those funny things Harpo pulls out of that coat of his.
Nathaniel Greene Pendleton (August 9, 1895 – October 12, 1967) was an American Olympic wrestler, film actor, and stage performer. His younger brother, Edmund J. Pendleton (1899–1987), was a well-known music composer and choir master and organist for the American Church in Paris .
- Actor, wrestler
Jan 24, 2011 · Harpo steals the movie, shown here with Chico, Nat Pendleton and James Pierce. The Marx Brothers take on higher education in their fourth movie, Horse Feathers. Groucho plays Professor Wagstaff the new dean of Huxley College where his son (Zeppo) is enrolled and fooling around with the college widow (Todd). Groucho disapproves.
Aug 5, 2019 · Horse Feathers is the fourth comedy from the Marx Brothers (“The Cocoanuts”-1929/ “Animal Crackers”-1930/ “Monkey Business”-1931); it’s an anarchic parody of college life, and for that matter, prostitution and bootlegging; it throws caution and a sane plot line aside in its irreverent attack on authority and society that can be summed up by the ...
Dec 30, 2017 · Comedically, Horse Feathers turns around when Harpo and Chico go to kidnap rival college’s ringer football players Nat Pendleton and James Pierce. It’s a long, solid sequence–not without some of the standard Horse problems–but it’s way too little, way too late.
