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Here are the final moments from "The Incredible Jewel Robbery," a short comedy with no dialogue, starring Harpo and Chico Marx and broadcast on CBS's "General Electric Theater" on March 8, 1959. At the very end, Groucho makes a surprise appearance, and delivers the only spoken line in the piece. This turned out to be the final appearance of Groucho, Harpo, and Chico together. (That is, as far as anyone knew at the time. Unreleased Marx Brothers footage from Philip Rapp's aborted sitcom pilot "Deputy Seraph" eventually surfaced, and is widely available online. It was filmed in 1959, a few months after "The Incredible Jewel Robbery.")

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  • Why isn't this on DVD? Come on, you rights holders. There's money to be made!

    Besides, this is the Marx Brothers' final appearance together. 1959.

  • The whole show should be on DVD. The first half gets things off to a slow start. Harpo and Chico break into small stores, picking up odd items (a can of paint, a sausage, etc.). On first viewing, this is more of a long "what are they doing?" than truly funny. Not much is done with it. Harpo and Chico do more ducking around corners to avoid being seen than anything else. We eventually see they're using the items to build a phony police car. The plot thickens in the better second half

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  • In part two, Harpo and Chico use their fake police car. Harpo disguises himself as Groucho. He robs a jewelry store. Chico, dressed as a cop, arrives in the "police car" to "arrest" him. Off they go with the loot, being sidetracked only once when they assist a woman at a hospital for the deaf and dumb. Real cops soon catch them. They see the fake car was slightly mispainted. The real Groucho appears at the police lineup. The jewelry store man thinks Groucho was the Harpo/Groucho who robbed him.

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