A Magnificent Classic
Added 10/16/2009
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!
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One of the Marx Brothers Best!
Added 9/4/2009
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.
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non stop laughs
Added 7/6/2009
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
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A collection of very funny skits, but never quite gels.
Added 6/28/2009
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. ***
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bought as a gift
Added 2/9/2009
Was as seller promised, Thank you.
Bought as a gift, receiver was happy!
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A Magnificent Classic
Added 10/16/2009
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!
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One of the Marx Brothers Best!
Added 9/4/2009
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.
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non stop laughs
Added 7/6/2009
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
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