Groucho +H20

HORSE FEATHERS was the first Marx Bros. picture shot at the Paramount Studios in Hollywood in 1934. Their previous two talkies were shot in New York at the Astoria lot while the brothers were performing at night on Broadway, Sound recording was in its infancy. In Hollywood, Groucho first recorded the song and played guitar in a sterile studio and then lip-synced to playback on location. In the original film there is no sound of the water behind him as he attempts to seduce the college widow in a canoe until after the duck quack when suddenly the original noisy production sound track appears with all its natural ambience. In the interest of realism we have taken the liberty of adding the original water noises behind the song + a single off-screen duck quack at what appears to be an appropriate place. Marxist purists who object to this may watch the original film and disregard the contemporary adjustment.