Stone Gordonssen wrote:
> >But I wonder if there's a problem with their estate/copyright matters
> >etc.??
>
> Always possible, but I know I've seen the film with the "Time flies ..."
> couplet (sorry, don't remember the title) within the past year when a
friend
> rented several Marx Brother's movies for us to watch after he learned I'd
> never seen one. (He was disturbed that I didn't like any of them, though
> that's another story).
Aha. So they are available. I'm not wild about them either-- they do tend
to be a little frenetic-- but the word play is magnificent, mostly thanks to
S. J. Perelman's writing.
>
> A decade ago, Hollywood video pulled all copies of
> "Quest for Fire" for an extended period becuase a religious faction
> complained (I guess that quelling the threat to their beliefs was more
> important than supporting my right to view the film).
>
Good grief. Why? Promoting Parsi-ism????