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Norman Z. McLeod has 5 titles in the CriticCrunch catalog across a career spanning the 1930s through the 1940s.
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The Music Box
1932
Comedy

Duck Soup
1933
Comedy · War

A Day at the Races
1937
Comedy · Music

The Flying Deuces
1939
Comedy · War

A Night at the Opera
1935
Comedy · Music

Our Relations
1936
Comedy

Animal Crackers
1930
Comedy · Music

The Awful Truth
1937
Comedy · Romance

Four stowaways get mixed up with gangsters while running riot on an ocean liner.
Dir. Norman Z. McLeod · With Groucho Marx, Harpo Marx, Chico Marx

Quincy Adams Wagstaff, the new president of Huxley U, hires bumblers Baravelli and Pinky to help his school win the big football game against rival Darwin U.
Dir. Norman Z. McLeod · With Groucho Marx, Harpo Marx, Chico Marx

Walter Mitty, a daydreaming writer with an overprotective mother, likes to imagine that he is a hero who experiences fantastic adventures. His dream becomes reality when he accidentally meets a mysterious woman who hands him a little black book. According to her, it contains the locations of the Dutch crown jewels hidden since World War II. Soon, Mitty finds himself in the middle of a confusing conspiracy, where he has difficulty differentiating between fact and fiction.
Dir. Norman Z. McLeod · With Danny Kaye, Virginia Mayo, Boris Karloff
Madcap couple George and Marion Kerby are killed in an automobile accident. They return as ghosts to try and liven up the regimented lifestyle of their friend and bank president, Cosmo Topper. When Topper starts to live it up, it strains relations with his stuffy wife.
Dir. Norman Z. McLeod · With Constance Bennett, Cary Grant, Roland Young

After he inherits some money, Harold Bissonette ("pronounced bis-on-ay") decides to give up the grocery business, move to California and run an orange grove. Despite his family's objections and the news that the land he bought is worthless, Bissonette packs up and drives out to California with his nagging wife Amelia and children.
Dir. Norman Z. McLeod · With W.C. Fields, Baby LeRoy, Kathleen Howard