Un giorno alle corse

Titolo originale: A Day at the Races
Regia: Sam Wood |
Anno: 1937
Origine: United States of America |
Generi: Commedia Musica
Tag: veterinarian | musical | femme fatale |
Cast: Groucho Marx | Chico Marx | Harpo Marx | Allan Jones | Maureen O'Sullivan | Margaret Dumont | Sig Ruman | Leonard Ceeley | Douglass Dumbrille | Esther Muir | Robert Middlemass | Vivien Fay | Ivie Anderson | Gino Corrado | Bess Flowers | Bert Moorhouse | Frank O'Connor | Carole Landis | Etta Moten | Dorothy Dandridge | Byron Foulger |

Approfittando di un'ipoteca che grava su una clinica, il cattivo Morgan vorrebbe trasformarla in una casa da gioco. La situazione è salvata in extremis col denaro vinto a una corsa di cavalli. Passati dalla Paramount alla M-G-M, i fratelli Marx devono fare i conti con gli eredi di Irving Thalberg, morto tre mesi prima dell'inizio delle riprese, che, come in Una notte all'Opera, cercano di smorzare i loro eccessi aggressivi e dare al prodotto una scorrevole gradevolezza in linea con le tradizioni della casa. Così il marxismo convive con i cavalli (Groucho veterinario che si spaccia per medico), una scenografia sfarzosa, stereotipate musiche romantiche. Ma non mancano né le trasgressioni né le sequenze di travolgente buffoneria: il consulto medico, la scena all'ippodromo in cui Chico, travestito da gelataio, cerca di vendere a Groucho un'informazione sicura.

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The "Grand Steeplechase" sequence at the end had to be shot twice. Both times a crew member persuade [...]	D
Glenn Mitchell's commentary on the Warner Home Video DVD states that the band backing Ivie Anderson' [...]	D
MGM executive Irving Thalberg died within two weeks of the start of filming. He was instrumental in [...]	D
The water carnival sequence was originally filmed in light brown sepia, and the ballet scene was sho [...]	D
There was originally a song that echoed "Hurray for Captain Spaulding" entitled "Dr. Hackenbush" (wr [...]	D
Included among the American Film Institute's 2000 list of the Top 100 Funniest American Movies.	D
This is the only film of The Marx Brothers to receive an Oscar nomination in a competitive category, [...]	D
It is the 'other' film that ends with the line, 'Tomorrow is another day.'	D
Irving Thalberg protested the scene in which Harpo Marx frantically mimes to Chico Marx that Hackenb [...]	D
Groucho Marx's character was initially to have been named Dr. Quackenbush, which he and everyone els [...]	D
This film has a 100% rating on Rotten Tomatoes based on 16 critic reviews.	D
Al Boasberg, the man most responsible for shaping the early comic persona of Jack Benny, was initial [...]	D
British rock band Queen named their 1976 album "A Day at the Races" after the film. It was a compani [...]	D
With a running time of one hour and 50 minutes, this is the longest of The Marx Brothers' theatrical [...]	D
The then unknown British actress Greer Garson was offered the female role, but she declined, explain [...]	D
This film was initially telecast in Norfolk VA Friday 22 March 1957 on WTAR (Channel 3), followed by [...]	D
This was the first film that Roger Ebert ever saw in the cinema.	D
In the finale, Groucho Marx sings one line of a song called "I've Got a Message from the Man in the [...]	D
Film debut of Richard Farnsworth.	D
The song Cosi-Cosa played during the beginning of the race track scene was one of the main songs fro [...]	D

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