Animal Crackers

1930. USA. Directed by Victor Heerman. With Groucho, Harpo, Chico, and Zeppo Marx. Dalí viewed all of the Marx brothers as comedic anarchists; he, along his Surrealist colleague Antonin Artaud, viewed the brothers' disruptive jokes and stunts as liberating processes. But it was the silent Harpo whose frenzied bearing was closest to Dalí's own hyperactive behavior, and in 1937 he pronounced, "Harpo Marx is Surrealist in everything." 96 min.