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Synopsis: A Day at the Races is the
Marx Brothers at their commercial and popular peak. The story
finds Groucho, Chico, and Harpo helping out at a sanatorium, where
their longtime foil in the movies, Margaret Dumont, is the leading
patient. Doctor Hugo Hackenbush, Tony, and Stuffy try and save
Judy's farm by winning a big race with her horse. There are a
few problems however. Hackenbush runs a high priced clinic for
the wealthy who don't know he has his degree in Veterinary Medicine.
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This film features the Whitey's
Lindy Hoppers
in one of the Best Movie Lindy
Hop
scenes ever filmed in a barn (Hellzapoppin being first.)
Bess Flowers and Dorothy
Dandridge are in the film but do not dance. Vivian Faye does
a blue colored "Water Carnival" ballet scene. If your
a Marx brothers fan you will like the film or if you are a swing
dancer, this is a MUST HAVE SWING DANCE
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