A Day at the Races (1937) | |
Director(s) | Sam Wood |
Producer(s) | Irving Thalberg (uncredited), Lawrence Weingarten (uncredited), Sam Wood (uncredited) |
Top Genres | Comedy, Sports |
Top Topics | Slapstick |
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A Day at the Races Overview:
A Day at the Races (1937) was a Comedy - Sports Film directed by Sam Wood and produced by Sam Wood, Irving Thalberg and Lawrence Weingarten.
SYNOPSIS
This Marx Brothers outing turns the boys loose in a sanatorium. Groucho moves up in life from ministering to horses at the track to minding the hypochondriacal ills of patients such as Dumont. One of their best!
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A Day at the Races (1937, Sam Wood)
By Andrew Wickliffe on May 18, 2015 From The Stop ButtonUntil the halfway point or so, A Day at the Races moves quite well. Sure, it gets off to a slow start–introducing Chico as sidekick to Maureen O’Sullivan and setting up her problems (her sanitarium is going out of business), which isn’t funny stuff. I think Allan Jones even shows u... Read full article
A Day at the Races (1937)
By Beatrice on Sep 28, 2013 From Flickers in TimeA Day at the Races Directed by Sam Wood Written by Robert Pirosh, George Seton, and George Oppenheimer 1937/USA Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Repeat viewing Although I thought a lot of the many, many musical sequences dragged down the pace of this, the Marx Brothers continued to score with me in the comedy ... Read full article
A Day at the Races (1937)
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A Day at the Races (1937)
By 4 Star Film Fan on Aug 16, 2013 From 4 Star FilmsStarring The Marx Brothers, the film begins with a pretty young lady who owns a sanitarium near a racetrack. In danger of closing, she brings in a new doctor named Hackenbush (who specializes in horses) and at the same time her love buys a race horse. A powerful man wants the place closed down so he... Read full article
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Quotes from
[examining Stuffy with an auriscope]
Dr. Hackenbush: I haven't seen anything like this in years. The last time I saw a head like that was in a bottle of formaldehyde.
Tony: Told you he was sick.
Dr. Hackenbush: [pointing to Stuffy's neck] That's all pure desecration along there. He's got about a 15% metabolism, with an overactive thyroid and a glandular affectation of about 3%.
Tony: That's bad.
Dr. Hackenbush: With a 1% mentality.
[Stuffy grins]
Dr. Hackenbush: He's what we designate as the crummy moronic type. All in all, this is the most gruesome looking piece of blubber I've ever peered at.
Tony: Hey doc. Hey doc!
Dr. Hackenbush: Huh?
Tony: You gotta the looking glass turned around, you're looking at yourself.
Tony: We come to hang the paper.
Dr. Hackenbush: How about hanging yourselves?
Dr. Hackenbush: And I've got a question for you: Steinberg, what do you do with your old razor blades?
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Facts about
Irving Thalberg protested the scene in which Harpo Marx frantically mimes to Chico Marx that Hackenbush (Groucho Marx) is in danger. It changed Harpo, said Thalberg, from a character who DIDN'T talk into a character who couldn't talk. Either way, the gag was used again in A Night in Casablanca and Love Happy.
In the finale, Groucho Marx sings one line of a song called "I've Got a Message from the Man in the Moon." The entire song was filmed but not used in the final cut.
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