Description:Doctor Hugo Hackenbush, Tony, and Stuffy try and save Judy's farm by winning a big race with her horse. There are a few problems. Hackenbush runs a high priced clinic for the wealthy who don't know he has his degree in Veterinary Medicine. ... Full Description Stars the Marx Brothers.
This hysterical outing turns the boys loosDoctor Hugo Hackenbush, Tony, and Stuffy try and save Judy's farm by winning a big race with her horse. There are a few problems. Hackenbush runs a high priced clinic for the wealthy who don't know he has his degree in Veterinary Medicine. ... Full Description Stars the Marx Brothers.
This hysterical outing turns the boys loose in a sanitarium. Groucho moves up in life from ministering to horses at the track to minding the hypochondriacal ills of patients such as those of the inimitable Ms. Dumont. The film is considered one of the Marx Brothers' best.
Maureen O'Sullivan plays Judy Standish, a woman whose sanitarium is about to be foreclosed upon. Standish begs for help from rich patient Emily Updike, played by the hysterically funny Maragaret Dumont. Updike agrees to save the sanitarium but demands that her favorite medical practitioner, Dr. Hugo Hackenbush (Groucho Marx), be placed in charge. Hackenbush is a horse doctor by trade. Thus begins another wacky, silly adventure with the kings of comedy, Groucho, Chico, and Harpo Marx. Chico, a racing tipster, and Harpo, a jockey, find faith in Hackenbush when they discover that the good doctor is a fraud, so the trio sets off to defeat the nasty bankers who continue to scheme for the sanitarium, while also pushing forward the incipient love affair between Standish and struggling singer Gil Stewart (Allan Jones). Also included is the horse race for which the film is named, a carnival of bathing beauties, and some very odd musical numbers.
Irving Thalberg, the man responsible for bringing the Marx Brothers to MGM, died of pneumonia while supervising preproduction, which was extensive. Over two years, 18 scripts were written. As with A NIGHT AT THE OPERA, the final script was taken on the road as a traveling theater piece. Audience members were allowed to give written feedback on the performance. The film was banned in Latvia under the assertion that it contained nothing of value.
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Watched June 12th - the giraffe's DVD collection -
1st Viewing
"I haven't seen anything like this in years, the last time I saw a head like that it was in a bottle of formaldehyde. "
-Dr. Hackenbush
There is something inherently funny when you combine comedians and horse racing - and A Day at the Races is no exception - the Marx Brothers are at their best in this movie in which they have to win a horse race in order to save a sanitarium from demolition. There are very funny bits all th"
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"Re-watch - July 14th
I'd forgotten that I had a big problem with this one: the musical parts. Watching it again this month, I'm struck by just how forced & thus unnecessary the musical interludes are here. In previous Marx Bros. films, the ones heaviest on music set the audience up for the musical numbers, usually in the first 15 minutes or so. Here the first one comes along so late it feels unnecessary. I feel like Allan Jones had it in his contract that he had to sing 2 songs to be in the fil"
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