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Available on DVD:
A Day at the Races (1937)
- DVD, Region 1: Warner Home Video, www.marxbrothersdvd.com, 2004 /
Special Features:
Commentary by Glenn Mitchell (author of 'The Marx Brothers Encyclopedia')
Documentary 'On Your Marx, Get Set, Go!'
Robert Benchley's 'A Night At The Movies'
MGM Cartoons: 'Old Smokey' / 'Mama's New Hat' / 'Gallopin' Gals' View Clip (Quicktime / ISDN or Broadband recommended)
Audio only: Musical Outtake 'A Message From The Man In The Moon' (performed by Allan Jones) / MGM Radio Promo 'Leo Is On The Air'
Theatrical Trailer
Groucho stars as Hugo Z. Hackenbush, a horse veterinarian who impersonates the doctor of a sanatorium in danger of bankruptcy. An insane phone call to Florida, Chico selling race tips, Groucho's nutty medical exams and Harpo completely destroying a piano turning it into a harp are highlights. (J. Bradley Main)
This was the second movie the Brothers did with Irving Thalberg, but Thalberg died during filming and the Brothers' next movies at MGM were never as good as the first two.
TONY: Hey, come here. Sun-Up is the worst horse on the track.
HACKENBUSH: I notice he wins all the time.
TONY: Aw, that's-a just because he comes in first.
Groucho (Dr. Hackenbush) has dinner with Esther Muir (Flo Marlowe)
Related Links
General
- Plot line and quotes at http://www.filmsite.org
Cast:
| Groucho Marx | Doctor Hugo Z. Hackenbush | ||
| Harpo Marx | Stuffy | ||
| Chico Marx | Tony | ||
| Margaret Dumont | Mrs. Emily Upjohn | ||
| Maureen O'Sullivan | Judy Standish | ||
| Allan Jones | Gil Stewart | ||
| Sig Ruman | Dr. Leopold X. Steinberg | ||
| Douglas Dumbrille | Morgan | ||
| Leonard Ceeley | Whitmore | ||
| Esther Muir | Flo Marlowe | ||
| Robert Middlemass | Sheriff | ||
| Vivien Fay | Solo Dancer | ||
| Frankie Darro | Morgan's Jockey | ||
| Charles Trowbridge | Dr. Wilmerding | ||
| Carole Landis | Extra | ||
| Max Lucke | Doctor | ||
| Edward Le Saint | Doctor | ||
| Pat Flaherty | Detective | ||
| Si Jenks | Messenger | ||
| Hooper Atchley | Race Judge | ||
| John Hyams | Judge | ||
| Wilbur Mack | Judge | ||
| Lee Murray | Judge | ||
| Mary McLaren | Nurse | ||
| Jack Norton | Drunk | ||
| Jean Burt | Telephone Operator | ||
| Ivie Anderson | Herself (Singer) | ||
| Crinoline Choir | Singers | ||
| Dorothy Danbridge | bit role |
| Director | Sam Wood | ||
| Written by | George Oppenheimer | ||
| Robert Pirosh (also story) | |||
| George Seaton (also story) | |||
| Al Boasberg (additional material, uncredited) | |||
| Music | Bronislau Kaper | ||
| Walter Jurmann | |||
| Lyricist | Gus Kahn | ||
| Musical director | Franz Waxman | ||
| Musical Arranger | Roger Edens | ||
| Choral and orchestral Arranger | Leo Arnaud | ||
| Orchestrators | George Bassman | ||
| Paul Marquardt | |||
| Cinematography | Joseph Ruttenberg | ||
| Editor | Frank E. Hull | ||
| Art director | Cedric Gibbons | ||
| Stan Rogers | |||
| Edwin B. Willis (set decorator) | |||
| Recording director | Douglas Shearer | ||
| Choreographer | Dave Gould | ||
| Costume design | Dolly Tree | ||
| Assistant directors | Robert A. Golden | ||
| Al Shenberg | |||
| Producer | Max Siegel (associate) | ||
| Irving Thalberg (uncredited) | |||
| Lawrence Weingarten | |||
| Sam Wood | |||
| Production company / Distribution | Metro-Goldwyn-Meyer (Loew's Inc.) | ||
| Runtime | 109 min. | ||
| Release date | 11 Jun 1937 | ||
| New York opening | 17 Jun 1937 | ||
| Spanish title | Un día en las carreras | ||
| French title | Un jour aux courses | ||
| German title | Das große Rennen | ||
| Swedish title | En dag på kapplöpningarna | ||
| En dag på kapplöpningsbanan | |||
| Italian title | Un giorno alle corse | ||
| Finnish title | Päivä kilpa-ajoissa |
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