Horse Feathers is a 1932 pre-Code comedy film starring the Marx Brothers.[1][2] It stars the four Marx Brothers (Groucho, Chico, Harpo and Zeppo) and Thelma Todd. It was written by Bert Kalmar, Harry Ruby, S. J. Perelman, and Will B. Johnstone. Kalmar and Ruby also wrote some of the original music for the film. Several of the film's gags were taken from the Marx Brothers' stage comedy from the 1900s, Fun in Hi Skule.[3] The term "horse feathers" was a colloquial American expression for "nonsense" in the 1920s and 1930s but is now archaic.