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Marx Brothers - A Day At The Races [VHS] [1937]
 
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Marx Brothers - A Day At The Races [VHS] [1937]

VHS ~ Groucho Marx
5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)

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  • Actors: Groucho Marx, Chico Marx, Harpo Marx, Allan Jones, Maureen O'Sullivan
  • Directors: Sam Wood
  • Writers: George Oppenheimer, George Seaton, Robert Pirosh
  • Producers: Sam Wood, Irving Thalberg, Lawrence Weingarten, Max Siegel
  • Format: Black & White, PAL
  • Language English
  • Classification: U
  • Studio: Warner Home Video
  • VHS Release Date: 5 Jun 2000
  • Run Time: 109 minutes
  • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
  • ASIN: B00004CLEI
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 7,078 in Video (See Bestsellers in Video)

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    #46 in  Video > Classic Films > Comedy > 1930s

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A Day at the Races is the Marx Brothers at their commercial and popular peak, working with a top Hollywood director (Sam Wood of The Pride of the Yankees), supported with a healthy screen budget paying for such extras as a blue-tinted ballet sequence, love songs from crooner Allan Jones and decorative sets. But the brothers are also at the top of their game in terms of their own comic material and timing. The story finds Groucho, Chico and Harpo helping out at a sanatorium, where their longtime foil in the movies, Margaret Dumont, is the leading patient. The film has some of the trio's funniest and most memorable bits and a dazzling horserace at the climax. Not quite as good as its predecessor, A Night at the Opera, this is still a highlight in the Marxian filmography.--Tom Keogh, Amazon.com


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The Marx Brothers' business faces ruin unless they can save the day at the races.

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5.0 out of 5 stars "Either this man's dead or my watch has stopped", 14 Mar 2000
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This is one of the Marx Brothers' few MGM pictures, from early on in their career - it's not as good as 'A Night at the Opera', but it's still head and shoulders above most comedy films made in the 63 years since! The unlikely plot centres on a sanitarium and a racecourse. Groucho plays a horse vet (Hugo Z Hackenbush - masquerading as an expert doctor) who comes to the aid of the short-on-cash hospital, advising the owner to make money via horse-racing. The plot isn't the reason for watching the movie (it never is with Marx Bros films!) - you should get this video to watch the madcap antics of the three stars. The operating theatre scene and the Groucho-Chico book-trading exchange are both achingly funny. One fact that Marx-fans should also note is that there's currently a two-film video available on Amazon, containing both this film and 'A Day at the Races' for pretty much the same price.
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5.0 out of 5 stars True Classic from the Marx Brothers, 27 Oct 2003
What a great all round comedy from the marx brothers. A video that gives us laughter the whole way through from start to finish. The overall story line is excellent and at times is slightly jumpy but all greats have there slight blips. Groucho plays a great Dr Hakenbush that is portrayed as a comical horse doctor from southern florida. With added extras from the rest of the cast and the excellence of the trio in action this film is a definite for the the film noir junkies but with the added laughter makes a great nights viewing. A definite viewing pleasure that isnt seen today.
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5.0 out of 5 stars And with a name like Dr. Hugo Z. Hackenbush ...., 2 Dec 2007
By Jay "The Amazon Reviewer" (Mauritius) - See all my reviews
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The plot is particular bizarre. Judy Standish (Maureen O'Sullivan) has inherited a sanitarium and if she is unable to repay her debts she will be bought out by a casino! Her fiancee Gil (Alan Jones) has a plan to save the day: he has bought a race horse and hopes to win the money she needs. Judy finds the scheme ridiculous and turns instead to wealthy patient Emily Upjohn (the formidable Margaret Dumont)--who insists that Judy employ her favorite doctor, Dr. Hugo Z. Hackenbush. And with a name like that, this can only be one actor: Groucho Marx.
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