A Day at the Races

A Day at the Races

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

Year:
1937
3,284 Views
Three Great Laff Stars ! . . . more gags and gals . . . more songs and dances !
as the barrier goes up on the Whopper of all Musical Fun Shows!
America's Joy-Friends are back again in the grandest entertainment gallop of 1937! More howls, more girls, more song hits than "A Night At The Opera"!  Oh boy!
The Year's BIG Laugh, Music and Girl Show!

Hackenbush:
: Whitmore, one more yelp outta you and I'll have you bounced out of here! (on the phone)...And I trust, sir, that that answers your question.

Whitmore:
I'm sorry, Colonel, I didn't hear you!

Hackenbush:
I can't hear you, you will have to talk a little louder.

Whitmore:
I want to find out something about Hackenbush! (Hackenbush calls him on the intercom again) Well, what is it now?!

Hackenbush:
Whitmore, that's the last time I'm gonna warn you about that yowling! (on the phone) And in conclusion, let me say…

Whitmore:
I'm sorry Colonel. What was that you said about Hackenbush?

Hackenbush:
Hack- you mean, Dr. Hackenbush? Oh, no, he's not here.

Whitmore:
(with mounting impatience) I know he's not there. He's here!

Hackenbush:
Then what are you botherin' me for, Yankee?

Whitmore:
But I want to know something about his Florida record-

Hackenbush:
(in a female telephone operator's voice) Here's your Florida call, Mr. Whitmore-

Whitmmore:
Operator, will you get off the line! Hello, hello, Colonel?

Hackenbush:
Yes?

Whitmore:
Are you sure you're speaking about Hugo Z. Hackenbush?

Hackenbush:
Who?

Whitmore:
Hugo Z. Hackenbush!

Hackenbush:
Who's calling him?

Whitmore:
(barely controlling his temper)...The Standish Sanitarium.

Hackenbush:
Yeah! That's where he works! Say, I understand he's doing a mighty fine job up there.

Whitmore:
I... I want to get some information regarding his qualifications for the job.

Hackenbush:
What job?

Whitmore:
As head of the sanitarium!

Hackenbush:
Who?

Whitmore:
Hackenbush!

Hackenbush:
[on the intercom] Whitmore, are you calling me?

Whitmore:
No, you sap! (picks up the phone)... Hello.

Hackenbush:
Yes, now, uh, now what was that name?

Whitmore:
Hackenbush. HACK-EN-BUSH!

Hackenbush:
Uh-huh. Well, as soon as he comes in, I'll have him get in touch with you.

Whitmore:
[slamming down the phone] No!


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