Saturday, 26 September 2026 at 9 pm
Directed by: Norman Z. McLeod
b/w, 68 min, USA, 1932
Professor Quincy Adams Wagstaff is the new president of Huxley College. His son Frank, who is studying at the college, persuades him that he should hire professional American football players to help the college's losing team. But, as a result of unforeseen events, instead of professional players the college team will be “boosted” by two ice sellers, Baravelli and Pinky…
Horse Feathers was the most popular Marx Brothers film produced during their time with the major studio, Paramount. It was so beloved that it earned them the cover of Time magazine. The film is a satire on the American college system and the then-reigning Prohibition (the ban on the production, sale, and serving of alcoholic beverages), and it is particularly memorable for the scene in which Harpo Marx pulls an almost endless stream of props from his coat, from a wooden mallet to a fish, a spiral cord, a tie, a poster of a woman in her underwear, a cup of hot coffee and a sword, to a candle burning at both ends, just as Groucho had warned him he couldn't light a candle at both ends. Like most of the Marx Brothers' work from that time, the film was censored. Unfortunately, no original print of the film is known to exist.
Commentary by: Damir Radić
Tickets for the screening on 26 September 2026 at 9 pm can be purchased online HERE, as well as at the Surogatkino KIC box office one hour before the start.