Word: grouchos
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...Tomorrow (Victor Moore, Beulah Bondi); Kid Galahad (Edward G. Robinson, Bette Davis, Wayne Morris) ; Under the Red Robe (Raymond Massey, Annabella, Conrad Veidt); I Met Him in Paris (Claudette Colbert, Robert Young, Melvyn Douglas); Slim (Pat O'Brien, Henry Fonda, Margaret Lindsay); A Day at the Races (Groucho, Chico & Harpo Marx) ; The Road Back (John King, Richard Cromwell...
...Races (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer). Groucho Marx washes his hands in a basin, discovers that he has his wrist watch on. He removes it. puts it on a table, notices a bystander eyeing it. He puts it back in the basin, says: "I'd rather have it rusty than missing...
Chico Marx runs an ice cream wagon at a racetrack. When he spies Groucho placing a bet on Sun-Up, he intercedes, sells the visitor a tip. When Groucho fails to understand the tip. Chico produces a code book from the ice cream wagon, sells Groucho the code book. When Groucho fails to understand the code book, Chico sells him a master code book. By the time the transaction ends, Groucho has a whole library of code books. Chico has Groucho's money, which he bets...
...they are unfunny in print. A Day at the Races, which took a year to make, is happily distinguished from previous Marx pictures in that it contains more of them. A wild, complex, totally implausible fable about a run-down sanatorium, its impudent porter (Chico), an imported horse-doctorphysician (Groucho) and the steeplechase in which a speechless jockey (Harpo) gets the money to pay off the sanatorium's debts through his brilliant ride on a horse who hates the gambler who is trying to buy the sanatorium for use as a casino-it all adds up to nothing...
...fact that Groucho Marx receives screen credit as co-author with Norman Krasna of The King and the Chorus Girl, may to some extent account for the picture's utterly amoral and pleasantly lucid lunacy. So may the fine comedy sense of Director Mervyn Le Roy, making his debut as a producer. Any added fillip given the story by plot resemblances to recent developments in European affairs can, since it went into production last October, be considered a happy accident, as can the facial resemblance of Actor Fernand Gravet to the Duke of Windsor when the Duke...