A Day at the Races (1937)

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1. 

   Warrison

   My opinion will not be popular but,....
   
   These are very much a product of their time and I dont enjoy them.
   
   A bunch of sketches bolted together with an unrelated musical interlude between them. 1 year 3 months ago
2. 

   Siskoid

   A Day at the Races drops the Marx Brothers in a sanitarium next to a racetrack, and the comic action moves from one to the other to make a get-rich/save-the-business plot work. It's not the kind of thing where the plot is all that important, so long as it provides ample justification for comedy routines and slapstick set pieces, but that plot is amusing enough and isn't TOO close to A Night at the Opera, despite having mostly the same guest cast. Indeed, it appears that if you can stand to work with the clearly insane Marx Brothers, you'll have a job for life. In addition to Margaret Dumont (Groucho's leading lady and eternal foil), and Sig Ruman (usually the heavy), we have Allen Jones AGAIN playing a struggling singer, the better to introduce musical elements (including a very cool, if unnecessary, ballet number with Vivien Fay). It's still the Marx's longest film and it feels like it. Warning: There's a mercifully brief black face moment (though a lot of actual black performers in what is a good musical routine, at least up to that off-putting point). 6 years 3 months ago
3. 

   3eyes

   uncredited performance by Dorothy Dandridge. 7 years 6 months ago

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