A Day at the Races (film)

A Day at the Races 1937 is the seventh film starring the three Marx Brothers, with Margaret Dumont, Allan Jones, and Maureen OSullivan. Like their previous MetroGoldwynMayer feature A Night at the Opera, this film was a major hit.

Meanwhile, Judys boyfriend, singer Gil Stewart Allan Jones, has taken his lifes savings and bought a horse with it, instead of paying for vocal lessons to further his career as a radio singer. His hope is that the horse, HiHat, will win a big race, and the money will save the sanitarium. Unfortunately, he now has no money to pay for the horses feed, and he and Tony Chico Marx, who works for the sanitarium, and Stuffy Harpo Marx, HiHats jockey, have to resort to trickery to fend off the Sheriff Robert Middlemass. Tony raises some money by scamming Hackenbush in the Tutsi Fruitsy Ice Cream scene, in which Tony gives Hackenbush a tip on a horse, but all in code, so that Hackenbush has to buy book after book from Tony to decipher the code.At the Sanitarium, its business manager, Whitmore Leonard Ceeley who is Morgans stooge attempts to rattle Mrs. Upjohns faith in Hackenbush by having her discover him in a compromising situation with a blonde floozie, Esther Muir. Hackenbush is saved by Stuffy and Tony, who pose as house detectives and then as paperhangers, who first paste the vamp to the wall behind layers of wallpaper and then hide her under the sofa. Next, Whitmore brings in the eminent Dr. Steinberg Sig Ruman, who exposes Hackenbush as a quack. ........

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