A Day at the Races (1937) (MOD) "Looney Tunes"The Marx Brothers skewer medicine and bring home a racetrack winner in the hilarious A Day at the Races. In his favorite role, Groucho is Dr. Hugo Z. Hackenbush MD, PhD, RFD, MC, PDQ, BYOB and none of the above dispensing horse pills and quips with equal glee. Chico, Harpo and favorite foil Margaret Dumont join the fun of this thoroughly thoroughbred comedy. Enjoy tootsie frootsie ice cream, Dumont's medical exam, Harpo's pretty girl pantomime sketch,
tyrant lizard fans
kidnapping and murder - that made sweeping 1980s TV epics like Dallas and Falcon Crest such hits
Arthur Rankin
joins reserved Sandy McKenzie (Granger) on a great government-sanctioned buffalo hunt that will keep the buffalo population under control and make the men rich
is served with ample helpings of humor and melodrama
rakes and officials colliding and colluding in a buoyant plot that starts with a brawl at a League of Social Purity march and ends in a brothel housed in a Jules Verne-esque airship
" the song composed by Lee Hazlewood (the film's music supervisor) that would become a Frank Sinatra staple
and the music includes the silken sounds of bandleader Freddy Martin
a battle with bloodthirsty Malay pirates and Harlow's drinking contest with bluff villain Wallace Beery
eager to witness on-screen the charismatic chemistry that made Taylor and Burton the decade's most scrutinized off-screen couple
Deborah Dainton takes refuge in her work as a trusted employee of a posh London auction house
Michael's transition from cold professional to caring physician provides the compassionate core of this tale accented with vivid location filming
