Description
Friday, May 1 @ 7:00 PM
The Reva and David Logan Center for the Arts (Film Studies Center Screening Room)
915 E. 60th St., Chicago, IL 60637
☆HORSE FEATHERS☆
Directed by Norman Z. McLeod • 1932
Huxley College’s new president is Quincy Adams Wagstaff (Groucho), and his idea of DEI is hiring middle-aged goofballs Baravelli (Chico) and Pinky (Harpo) as ringers to help Huxley’s football team win the big game. An urtext demonstrating how a handful of intuitively linked chaos agents can rearrange reality through wordplay and sheer disrespect, Horse Feathers showcases the Marx Brothers’ unerring instinct for upending institutional gravitas, and has influenced similarly anarchic comedies from Caddyshack to How High. Somehow, this slim film is also roomy enough to contain both the gleefully nihilist anthem “Whatever It Is, I’m Against It” and the genuinely tender trifle “Everyone Says I Love You.” (GW)
68 min • Paramount Pictures • 35mm from Universal
Preceded by: “Guido Deiro, The World’s Foremost Piano-Accordionist” (Doc Saloman, 1929) – 6 min – 35mm preservation print courtesy of the UCLA Film & Television Archive
Date & Time
Fri, May 1, 2026 7:00 PM - 9:00 PM
Venue Details
Logan Center For the Arts Screening Room 201
915 East 60th StreetChicago, Illinois 60637
