We do knowwhere the name of Blount's book comes from. In any case, the result, as Woody Allen once pointed out, is that of all the great movie comedies, "Duck Soup is the only one that really doesn't have a dead spot."īut Blount might have done more with sourcing the name of the country ruled and dismembered by the brothers: Freedonia, "Land of the Spree, and the Home of the Knave." A friend swore the name came from his hometown, Fredonia, N.Y., borrowed at the suggestion of someone linked to the movie who had passed through and found the burg subpar. On the whole, he hated working with them." But Blount's guess as to why McCarey did so is counterintuitive: "It could be that he didn't want the Marxes bursting in and out of his own subtle way of conveying romance. Blount credits Leo McCarey, the director of Duck Soup, for filtering out the nods to cinematic conformity, especially the love interest, that bog down other Marx Brothers flicks.
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