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A Day at the Races

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A Day at the Races
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NR,1hr 51min
Genre:
Comedy
Released:
January 1, 1937
Director:
Sam Wood
Distributor:
Warner Home Video
Starring:
Marx Brothers, Groucho Marx, Chico Marx  ...more
Synopsis: A Day at the Races was the Marx Brothers' follow-up to their incomparable A Night at the Opera. Groucho Marx is cast as Hugo Z. Hackenbush, a veterinarian who passes himself off as a human doctor when summoned by wealthy hypochondriac Emily Upjohn (Margaret Dumont) to take over the financially strapped Standish Sanitarium. Chico Marx plays the sanitarium's general factotum, who works without pay because he has a soft spot for its owner, lovely Judy Standish (Maureen O'Sullivan). Harpo Marx portrays ... Full Synopsis
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Craig Butler, AMG Review
The follow-up to A Night at the Opera (arguably the Marx Brothers's best film), A Day at the Races falls a little short of the mark in comparison with Opera, but is still lunatic fun of a high order. The boys are in fine form here, performing difficult routines with such skill that they come across as effortless (and are all the more enjoyable therefore). Several classic routines -- including "tutsi-fruitis," ... Full Review
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Marx Brothers
themselves (Groucho,Chico, Harpo)
Groucho Marx
Dr. Hugo Z. Hackenbush
Chico Marx
Tony
Harpo Marx
Stuffy
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