Review of A Day at the Races (1937) by Chris M — 06 Jan 2013

An animal vet (Groucho Marx) pretending to be a doctor and a mute jockey (Harpo Marx, of course) try to help the owner (Maureen O'Sullivan) of a financially unstable medical facility and her servant (Chico Marx) pay off their debts by betting on a big horse race in the Marx Brothers' comedy, A Day at the Races.

While some unnecessary musical numbers and an underdeveloped romance between O'Sullivan and Allan Jones keep this comedy inferior to the Marx Brothers' best work, A Day at the Races, like its predecessors before it, still contains more (as well as bigger) laughs than most of the comedies that are being made today.