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Article: Uproarious films get their due in new `Marx Brothers Collection'.(Knight Ridder Newspapers)
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- May 4, 2004
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Byline: Terry Lawson
Every time I begin to take the DVDs for granted, something arrives to remind me that for all my fond memories of the repertory houses, revivals, late-night TV channel surfing and college film societies of the `60s and early `70s, I was spending more time hunting down old movies I wanted to see than watching them. And when I did succeed, I was watching scratched-up, hacked-up prints in muffled mono, usually in inglorious 16mm.
Fortunately, for reasons never fully explained but often attributed to a Vietnam-era affection for anarchy, a full-blown Marx Brothers revival started somewhere around 1968. That made it possible to see all 13 ...