In which Marx Brothers film does much of the action centre on the theft of a painting, during a party given in honour of Groucho's character, the explorer Captain Geoffrey T. Spaulding?
Captain Spaulding sequel "The Devil's Rejects". Captain Spaulding Captain Jeffrey T. Spaulding is a fictional character in the Broadway musical "Animal Crackers" and the film of the same name. He was originally played by actor Groucho Marx, one of the Marx Brothers, in both productions. Despite his middle name being Edgar, he is known as Jeffrey T. Spaulding; his first name is also spelled as "Geoffrey" in parts of the film. Spaulding had a theme song entitled "Hooray for Captain Spaulding", composed by Bert Kalmar and Harry Ruby, which all of the guests sing upon his arrival; this song would go on
Captain Spaulding world, but his own accounts of his safari reveal his cowardice. At the party, which is taking place over a weekend, a valuable painting is stolen, and he along with the police and his secretary Jamison (Zeppo Marx) try to recover it. In the 1939 Marx Brothers' film "At the Circus", J. Cheever Loophole (also played by Groucho Marx) sings a rendition of "Lydia the Tattooed Lady" and one line references Lydia having a tattoo of Captain Spaulding exploring the Amazon. Rob Zombie used the character's name for a major character in his film "House of 1000 Corpses" and its