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... Learn More
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I know this movie doesn't hold a candle to "Duck Soup" and "A Night At The Opera", but don't judge this film too harshly. Watch the movie, see what you think, you're entitled to your opinion. I think this movie is pretty good. Harpo has center stage instead of all of them, mainly Groucho, in the spotlight. Groucho only has a secondary role and appears in about 1/3 of the film. Harpo as himself is kept an eye on by Ilona Massey as she tries to get her greedy hands on a diamond necklace. This becomes unoticingly passed through a group of actors rehearsing a show. As Chico gets in on the action and Groucho steps in on the scene, the chase is on when the diamonds are hunted down...almost. Give this a try. You're going to laugh at a few parts, but again it isn't tops, but it's worth... More Info About This DVD Actor(s): Harpo Marx - Chico Marx - Groucho Marx Director(s): David Miller - Leo McCarey DVD Release Date: Released the 15 June 2004 Usually ships within 24 hours
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A Night in Casablanca may not qualify as a Marx Brothers classic, but it's certainly the best of their latter-day comedies. "This picture is funnier than all but a handful of their earlier ones," wrote the usually cantankerous Pauline Kael, and she's right. The Big Store would have been the final Marx movie, but that disappointment, and an attractive new deal with United Artists, prompted the Marx trio to bring freshly anarchic energy to this post-war spoof of wartime intrigue, prompting Warner Bros. (producers of Casablanca) to threaten legal action over the title, to which Groucho responded, "I am sure that the average movie fan could learn in time to distinguish between Ingrid Bergman and Harpo." As it happens, Night bears only passing resemblance to the... More Info About This DVD Actor(s): Groucho Marx - Harpo Marx Director(s): Archie Mayo DVD Release Date: Released the 04 May 2004 Usually ships within 24 hours
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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... More Info About This DVD Actor(s): Groucho Marx - Chico Marx - Harpo Marx Director(s): Sam Wood DVD Release Date: Released the 04 May 2004 Usually ships within 24 hours
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Imagine Groucho as the president of a college and Harpo and Chico as football players. It doesn't get much wackier than this. Horse feathers, indeed. Groucho is hilarious to watch as a hip professor. He's at his most rebellious singing "Whatever it is, I'm against it." Thelma Todd does some of her best vamping to help fix the big football game, which Harpo and Chico are supposed to throw. Naturally, the brothers have other ideas. For sheer laughter, this has to rate almost as high as Duck Soup, with the memorable speakeasy sequence, and the funniest football finale of all time, complete with banana peels and a chariot. --Bill DesowitzMore Info About This DVD Actor(s): Groucho Marx - Harpo Marx - Chico Marx Director(s): Norman Z. McLeod DVD Release Date: Released the 17 October 2000 THIS TITLE IS CURRENTLY NOT AVAILABLE. If you would like to purchase this title, we recommend that you occasionally check this page to see if it has become available.
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This is one of my personal favorites of the Marx Brothers movies (the other being "A Day at the Races"). This movie follows the brothers as stowaways on a ship, forever being chased around deck by the captain. The brothers then, completely by accident, become bodyguards for rival gang members. Groucho and Zeppo get stuck defending Alkie Briggs, while Chico and Harpo agree (for a fee) to defend Joe Helton. Zeppo then falls in love with Joe Helton's daughter, while Harpo joyfully chases a bullfrog around the ship! Once off the ship, Alkie Briggs, trying to trap Joe Helton into signing an agreement plans to kidnap Helton's Daughter, and the Marxes come to the rescue!
This was a great film for Harpo, some of the funniest gags in this film are his, especially the afformentioned bullfrog.... More Info About This DVD Actor(s): Groucho Marx - Harpo Marx Director(s): Norman Z. McLeod DVD Release Date: Released the 17 October 2000 THIS TITLE IS CURRENTLY NOT AVAILABLE. If you would like to purchase this title, we recommend that you occasionally check this page to see if it has become available.
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I've always thought it would be interesting to pair this film with Singing In the Rain, because all the technical glitches satirized in the later movie were very real during the production of this one. While Jolson's The Jazz Singer predates The Cocoanuts, this was the first musical to have a full-length, credit-to-credit soundtrack.
As such, it's often goofy, ludicrous, clumsily staged and badly timed. The songs are... well, what can you say about a movie that opens with a song called "The Monkey Doodle-Doo"? And all that disappears when Groucho launches into a routine, such as the famous "viaduct" ("I'm all right, how are you?") routine with his brother Chico.
An interesting piece of trivia about this movie (and others with the Marx brothers) -- having grown up in live theater, they... More Info About This DVD Actor(s): Zeppo Marx - Groucho Marx - Harpo Marx - Chico Marx Director(s): Robert Florey - Joseph Santley DVD Release Date: Released the 17 October 2000 THIS TITLE IS CURRENTLY NOT AVAILABLE. If you would like to purchase this title, we recommend that you occasionally check this page to see if it has become available.
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