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Day At The Races
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| Tookey's Rating |
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7 /10
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7.31 /10
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| Starring |
Groucho Marx  , Chico Marx, Harpo Marx |
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Directed by: Sam Wood
Written by: Robert Pirosh, George Seaton, George Oppenheimer from Pirosh and Seaton's story
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| Released: |
1937 |
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| Genre: |
SPORTS
COMEDY
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| Origin: |
US |
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| Colour: |
BW |
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| Length: |
109 |
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A hypochondriac socialite (Margaret Dumont) employs a horse doctor (Groucho Marx) to take over a sanitarium.
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Reviewed by Chris Tookey
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| MGM executive producer Irving Thalberg (who died during production) made the Marx Brothers acceptable to a wider audience by interspersing their comic routines with romantic interludes, and improving the production values of their films enormously. While his policy worked reasonably well on A Night At The Opera , this follow-up grinds to a halt rather too often. Still, there are some great lines ("Either this man is dead or my watch has stopped"), funny routines, and the racecourse climax works beautifully. |
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| "Surefire film fun and up to the usual parity of the madcap Marxes, even though a bit hectic in striving for jolly moments and bright quips." |
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| "The money is fairly splashed about; the capitalists have recognized the Marx Brothers; ballet sequences, sentimental songs, amber fountains, young lovers. Easily the best film to be seen in London, but all the same I feel a nostalgia for the old cheap rickety sets." |
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| "It's not up to Opera or Duck Soup , but it's better than just about everything else they did." |
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