Maureen O'Sullivan, of Tarzan fame among other films, gives the film some beauty and Dumont is treated with more respect here than in the other Marx Brothers films. The major skits involve a race track tout (Chico conning Groucho), a physical exam (Margaret Dumont, who else?), a delay of the big horse race and a bunch of other crazy skits. In this edition, the gag scenes were longer and the amount of music was much greater.
Even with the longer running time, it's still not the story but all the gags and musical talent of the Marx Brothers that is on parade here and is the selling point of the film.
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Well, here's one more zany uniquely-Marx Brothers film, one noted for being the longest feature movie they made at 111 minutes.
Her beauty and naivety eventually charm even the most cynical Grouchophile. A Marx Brothers fan, like myself, tends to fall in love with the woman after many years. Margaret Dumont as Mrs Upjohn is wonderful. It is not the only time the Marx Brothers have featured black musicians in one of their movies (At the Circus comes to mind). Imagine seeing the Jitterbug fifteen years before white teens were performing it. Instead of people in black face or grotesque caricatures, real black singers and dancers are featured. What is unusual in this film is the big musical number with the African-American race track employees. The examination room bit with Harpo ("Either this man is dead or my watch has stopped") is equally tight. The ice cream bit still makes me laugh and I've seen it upwards of twenty times.
Groucho and Chico work together like a well oiled insane asylum. 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.After this one, the quality fell off.dramatically. 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. 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 sanitorium hires her favourite physician, Dr Hugo Z. 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 next Marx Brothers film after A Night at the Opera, that follows pretty closely in the same mould. PAGES WILL BE DELETED OTHERWISE IF THEY ARE MISSING BASIC MARKUP. DON'T MAKE PAGES MANUALLY UNLESS A TEMPLATE IS BROKEN, AND REPORT IT THAT IS THE CASE. THIS SHOULD BE WORKING NOW, REPORT ANY ISSUES TO Janna2000, SelfCloak or RRabbit42. The Trope workshop specific templates can then be removed and it will be regarded as a regular trope page after being moved to the Main namespace.
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