A Day at the Races: Difference between revisions

The next [[Marx Brothers]] film after ''[[A Night at the Opera]]'', that'''''A Day at the Races''''' follows pretty closely in the same mould.

Judy Standish's Sanitarium is under threat of being taken over by unscrupulous businessman Morgan, who wants to demolish it and expand his real estate monopoly. The only hope for Judy is if she can keep the wealthy hypochondriac Mrs Upjohn ([[Margaret Dumont]]) as a permanent patient, who will only stay if the sanitoriumsanitarium hires her favourite physician, Dr Hugo Z. Hackenbush ([[Groucho Marx]]). Unfortunately for Mrs Upjohn, Hackenbush is actually a confidence-trickstering veterinarian, who has to avoid being caught out by either Morgan' cronies, the Florida Medical Board or Mrs Upjohn.

Meanwhile, [[Chico Marx]] and [[Harpo Marx]] play a sanitarium worker and a former jockey who have to save Hackenbush from a [[Femme Fatale]] employed by Morgan, while simultaneously trying to get the racehorse owned by the sanitarium owner's fiancée Gil into race-winning condition.