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A Day at the Races
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The Marx Brothers' seventh film, released in 1937 and following closely in the same mold as their previous one, A Night at the Opera.Judy Standish's (Maureen O'Sullivan) sanitarium is under threat of being taken over by unscrupulous businessman J.D. Morgan (Douglass Dumbrille), who wants to demolish it and expand his real estate monopoly. The only hope for Judy is if she can keep as a permanent patient the wealthy hypochondriac Mrs. Upjohn (Margaret Dumont), who will only stay if the sanitarium hires her favourite physician, Dr. Hugo Z. Hackenbush (Groucho Marx). Unfortunately for Mrs. Upjohn, Hackenbush is actually a confidence-trickstering veterinarian, who has to avoid being caught out by either Morgan's cronies, the Florida Medical Board or Mrs. Upjohn.Meanwhile, Chico Marx and Harpo Marx play a sanitarium worker and a jockey who have to save Hackenbush from a Femme Fatale employed by Morgan, while simultaneously trying to get the racehorse owned by Judy's fiancée Gil (Allan Jones) into race-winning condition.Not to be confused with the 1976 Queen album A Day at the Races, which was named after the movie. | |
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End of an Age | |
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End of an Age: This film, although still hailed as a classic, has been noted as repeating the basic plot of A Night at the Opera and it was produced around the death of the MGM executive Irving Thalberg. With that, the Brothers lost their strongest advocate and their streak of comedy film excellence came to an end. | |
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Non-Verbal Miscommunication | |
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Nonverbal Miscommunication: When Harpo tries to warn Chico about the frame job against Groucho. He gets it eventually. | |
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Mysterious Middle Initial | |
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Mysterious Middle Initial: Dr. Hugo Z. Hackenbush. | |
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This Means War! | |
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This Means War!: This is Hackenbush's first reaction when he hears the bugle from the racetrack—it got him out of the heated discussion he was having with Whitmore. | |
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Induced Hypochondria | |
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Induced Hypochondria: The reason Hackenbush is so well trusted by Mrs Upjohn: | |
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Acrofatic | |
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Acrofatic: During the "All God's Children" number, one of the dancers is an overweight man who pulls off some pretty impressive moves, culminating in doing the splits. | |
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Sexy Figure Gesture | |
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Sexy Figure Gesture: In the scene where Stuffy does a pantomime to tell Tony about The Vamp who plans to seduce and frame Dr. Hackenbush. When Stuffy makes the hourglass gesture, Tony's first guess is, "A snake! A big, big snake!" After Stuffy's gestures and whistles get more and more exaggerated, "That's-a no snake." (The Marx Brothers used a similar gag in their later movie Go West.) | |
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Have You Told Anyone Else? | |
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Have You Told Anyone Else?: When Tony and Stuffy find out Hackenbush's secret, they tell Gil, who responds this way out of concern. | |
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Only One Name | |
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Only One Name: Tony and Stuffy. | |
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Parlor Games | |
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Parlor Games: An Overly-Long Gag has Stuffy spend an entire scene using charades to explain the villains' Frame-Up plot to Tony. | |
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Real Joke Name | |
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Real Joke Name: Averted, Groucho Marx's character was going to be Doctor Quackenbush, but MGM's Legal department heard from an actual Dr. Quackenbush complaining, so the name was changed to Hackenbush. | |
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Herr Doktor | |
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Herr Doktor: Dr. Leopold X. Steinberg, played by German-born actor Sig Ruman. | |
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Grande Dame | |
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Grande Dame: Margaret Dumont again. | |
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Wacky Americans Have Wacky Names | |
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Wacky Americans Have Wacky Names: Dr. Hugo Z. Hackenbush. | |
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M.D. Envy | |
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M.D. Envy: Groucho averts this by just practicing on humans anyway. | |
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Lopsided Dichotomy | |
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Lopsided Dichotomy: | |
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Boy Meets Girl | |
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Boy Meets Girl: | |
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Accidental Misnaming | |
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Accidental Misnaming: Chico keeps pronouncing Groucho's character Hackenbush's name as "Hackannapuss". | |
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Berserk Button | |
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Berserk Button: Hi-Hat the horse utterly detests the main villain. This is used to advantage during the race. | |
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Fake Static | |
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Fake Static: When Whitmore calls the Florida Medical Research Board looking for information on Dr. Hackenbush, Hackenbush pretends to be a Southern colonel answering the phone and pushing the buzzer: | |
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Doctor, Doctor, Doctor | |
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Doctor, Doctor, Doctor: Played for laughs when Groucho introduces Chico and Harpo as Dr. Steinberg to the actual Dr. Steinberg: | |
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Covered in Mud | |
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Covered in Mud: Harpo on the good guy's horse and another guy on the bad guy's horse are neck and neck to win when they take a spill into a big mud hole. Hurrying back into the race, the other guy comes in first...but a quick wash-off reveals it's on the good guy's horse. | |
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Blackface | |
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Blackface: The boys, evading the law, momentarily don (very badly done) blackface to hide among a bunch of stable hands. Harpo only paints half his face. | |
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Suspiciously Similar Substitute | |
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Suspiciously Similar Substitute: As with A Night at the Opera, Allan Jones fills in for Zeppo. | |
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Have a Gay Old Time | |
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Have a Gay Old Time: Groucho telling the female lead, "For you, I'd make love to a crocodile." note At the time this movie was made (1937) make love was also being used in its modern, physical, sense — and Groucho was not shy about his language. | |
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