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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: DVD
EAN: 9780790745527
Format: Black & White, Closed-captioned, Color, DVD-Video, Subtitled, NTSC
ISBN: 0790745526
Label: Warner Home Video
Manufacturer: Warner Home Video
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Warner Home Video
Region Code: 1
Release Date: May 04, 2004
Running Time: 109 minutes
Sales Rank: 36987
Studio: Warner Home Video
Theatrical Release Date: June 11, 1937
Editorial Review:
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.
Amazon.com essential video:
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
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - One of their best
Not as packed with routines as A Night at The Opera, but up there with their top films. With The Coconuts and Duck Soup, it completes a Marx Brothers collection.
Rating:  - "Doctor! My Metabolism!"
The Marx Brothers had a run of four critically and commercial popular films for Paramount--but when DUCK SOUP was released in 1933 it tanked in a major way, so much so that Paramount was suddenly unenthusiastic about future projects. Enter Irving Thalberg, who was best known for "prestige pictures" made at Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, a studio that tended to emphasize family fare. Thalberg and MGM seemed an unlikely venue for the anarchy of the Marx Brothers, but Thalberg had ideas--and the result was ... Read More
Rating: - A Day at the Races 1937
Some of the trio's funniest set piece . The Comedy content is sensational . The Marxes skewer medicine and bring home a racetrack winner in the hilarious A DAY AT THE RACES. In his favorite role , Groucho is Dr. Hugu Z. Hackenbush - MD , PhD , RFD , MC , PDQ , BYOD and one of the above -dispensing horse pills and quips with equal glee . Groucho (1890-1977) , Chico (1887-1961) , Harpo (1888-1964) and favorite foil Margaret Dumont 1882-1965 join the fun of throughly thoroughbred comedy . Enjoy tootsie ... Read More
Rating: - Package: 5 stars / Material: 3 stars = ****
If you'e looking for "Duck Soup" you may have to settle for slightly diluted consomme, regarding the real comedy herein, although there are several excellent scenes which utilize the remarkable talents of Groucho, Chico, and Harpo ("tuttsie-frootsie" ice-cream, a couple of examinations, one with Harpo, and one with Margaret Dumont), and there some good lines, but this enterprise must be considered a Hollywood musical with the Marx Brothers - and the music is fine. (And what a shame that two numbers were ... Read More
Rating: - A Day at the Races
One of the Marx Bros' nuttiest farces, "Races" has all the gut-busting gags you would expect from their follow-up to "A Night at the Opera." The plot isn't as important as the general air of lunacy presiding over the whole affair, as when Groucho attempts to take a medical exam or falls for Chico's "tutsy-fruitsy" tip-buying scheme. Opulent sets and choice musical numbers performed by Allan Jones, who plays Hi-Hat's owner, complement director Sam Wood's goofy scenemaking. All of it culminates, of course, ... Read More
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