A Day at the Races (DVD)

Description: Genre: Comedy / Director: Sam Wood / Actors: Groucho Marx, Harpo Marx, Chico Marx, Allan Jones, Sam Wood ... / Features ... more

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Newest Review: ... their first film for MGM, but it still provides plenty of fun and some classic moments 'tested on the road' in the ... more

... traditional Marx Brothers fashion. The Marx Brothers are gradually becoming more and more conventional at this stage of their career as longer running times, more musical numbers and interludes, and more plot is imposed, but this is probably the last film they made that has enough energy and highlights to at least go close to being a classic. A Day at the Races does feature a classic moment fairly early on when Hackenbush has to survive several attempts to check his medical background by the shady Whitmore. "Why don...more

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	A Day at the Races [1937] Last Update 22.12.2009 05:45	£ 14.75

A Day at the Races [1937]

Last Update 22.12.2009 05:45

£ 14.75

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A Day at the Races (DVD): "Either he's dead or my watch has stopped." (1225 words)
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A Day at the Races is a 1937 Marx Brothers comedy directed by Sam Wood. The plot concerns Standish Sanitarium and its owner Judy Standish (Maureen O'Sullivan). Judy is facing bankruptcy and the forced sale of the sanitarium because one of its rich patients, hypochondriac socialite Mrs Emily Upjohn (Margaret Dumont), is due to leave because they can find nothing wrong with her. Judy and fiancee Gil Stewart (Allan Jones), who has just purchased a race horse with the last of their money in a desperate gamble, decide that only the support of Mrs Upjohn can save the institution. With the help of Tony (Chico Marx), Judy's friend and sanitarium chauffeur, they send for Mrs ... Read the complete review

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