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A Day at the Races |  | Director: Sam Wood
Actors: Groucho Marx, Chico Marx, Harpo Marx, Allan Jones, Maureen O'Sullivan
Studio: Warner Home Video
Category: DVD
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Rating:  47 reviews
Format: Black & White, Closed-captioned, Color, DVD, Subtitled, NTSC
Languages: English (Original Language), English (Subtitled), French (Subtitled), Spanish (Subtitled)
Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Region: 1
Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Number Of Discs: 1
Running Time: 111 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 7.1 x 5.4 x 0.6
MPN: WARD65139D
ISBN: 0790745526
UPC: 012569513921
EAN: 9780790745527
Theatrical Release Date: June 11, 1937
Release Date: May 4, 2004
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Product Description
A vet posing as a doctor a race horse owner and his friends struggle to help keep a sanitarium open with the help of a misfit racehorse. Studio: Warner Home Video Release Date: 04/05/2005 Starring: Chico Marx Harpo Marx Run time: 110 minutes Rating: Nr
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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
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 A Magnificent Classic October 16, 2009
Darren Slimick (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania)
They just don't make movies like this anymore. This film is full of perfectly timed physical comedy and subtle classic jokes. The crazy improvisation of the Marx Brothers is enough to make anyone laugh. The most spectacular part is when the movie dives into a musical number with beautiful, perfectly timed dancing girls and a rapid-twirling ballerina. Chico then plays his most breathtaking piano solo ever right before Harpo wows the world with his harp playing skills. BUY THIS MOVIE!
One of the Marx Brothers Best! September 4, 2009
Lynn Ellingwood (Webster, NY United States)
Funny, frenetic film with all the craziness of the Marx Brothers. Groucho poses as Dr. Hackenbush to Margaret Dumont's character who is looking for a doctor to run a sanitarium. The craziness follows antics at a race track with Harpo taking center stage. The movie's comedy is quite fun and the musical numbers - a prerequisite of MGM at the time, are wonderful. Tomorrow is Another Day is a wonderful number.
non stop laughs July 6, 2009
GLENN R (new york)
this is one of the most flipped out things i have ever seen out of all the comedy stuff get it you do not have to be a fan of the marx brothers to like it
 A collection of very funny skits, but never quite gels. June 28, 2009
Robert P. Beveridge (Cleveland, OH)
A Day at the Races (Sam Wood, 1937)
As long as I've been a movie fan, I've been hearing about A Day at the Races and how incredible it is. Many critics refer to it in the kind of tone one expects to hear when discussing, say, Orson Welles or The Godfather. I spent most of my life not really liking older comedy, having only really been exposed to the Three Stooges and that sort of thing, and have only recently discovered the genius of folks like Keaton and Chaplin, so I figured now was the time to try the Marx Brothers, and with my affinity for horse racing, this seemed like the movie to start with.
Hugo Hackenbush (Groucho) is a vet posing as the head of a mental institution. (Why? Who knows?) He gets himself tangled up with a racetrack tout (Chico), a happy-go-lucky jockey (Harpo), and a racehorse owner (Allan Jones, who got his start in this movie's companion piece, A Night at the Opera), trying to keep the sanitarium open with the help of a racehorse who's actually not much of a racehorse.
One of the things that I really like about Keaton, Chaplin, et al. is that their movies actually play out like movies, whereas my problem with acts like the Three Stooges is that the movies had a paper-thin plot whose sole reason for existence was to showcase the standup bits. That is also an exact description of A Day at the Races, though it also pauses for a number of musical bits in between the standup. And while some of those standup bits are funny, it's still a collection of bits mashed together to resemble a movie. Not bad, but I don't really get all the fuss. ***
 bought as a gift February 9, 2009
C. Crockett
Was as seller promised, Thank you.
Bought as a gift, receiver was happy!
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