A Day at the Races (1937) coming from Warner Archive

[whiteberry]

Coming to Blu-ray January 30th!

NEW 2023 1080p HD Master from 4K Scan of Preservation Elements!

A DAY AT THE RACES (1937)
Run Time: 111 Minutes
Subtitles: ENGLISH SDH
Audio Specs: DTS HD-MA 2.0
Aspect Ratio 16x9 1.37:1 with Side Mattes
Product color: B&W
Disc Configuration-BD 50
Directed by Sam Wood

Cast: Groucho Marx, Chico Marx, Harpo Marx, Allan Jones, Maureen O'Sullivan, Margaret Dumont

Special Features: Feature commentary by author/film historian Glenn Mitchell, Making-of featurette "On Your Marx, Get Set, Go!", Robert Benchley M-G-M short "A Night at the Movies", 3 Classic M-G-M cartoons "Gallopin' Gals" "Mama's New Hat" and "Old Smokey"; Audio-only treasures: Groucho Marx radio performance of "DR. HACKENBUSH" (written for film but unused), Musical outtake "A Message from the Man in the Moon" and Leo is On the Air Radio Promo; Original Theatrical Trailer (HD)

The Marx Brothers skewer medicine and bring home a racetrack winner in the hilarious A Day at the Races. In his favorite role, Groucho is Dr. Hugo Z. Hackenbush – MD, PhD, RFD, MC, PDQ, BYOB and none of the above – dispensing horse pills and quips with equal glee. Chico, Harpo and favorite foil Margaret Dumont join the fun of this thoroughly thoroughbred comedy. Enjoy tootsie-frootsie ice cream, Dumont’s medical exam, Harpo’s pretty-girl pantomime sketch, wallpaper wackiness and wall-to-wall hilarity the Marx way.

Trailer | A Day at the Races | Warner Archive - YouTube

[whiteberry]

To celebrate the announcement of A DAY AT THE RACES, take a look at the Marx Bros. out of character...A rare behind the scenes publicity shot with director Sam Wood, Groucho, Harpo & Chico.

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[MikeZ.]

Silver Screen Collection ( 5 films ) 2016
A Night At The Opera 2021
A Day At The Races 2023

[sb5]

Excellent!

[Wireduck1]

Absolutely over the moon, but surprised, this is finally coming out. Gives me hope for remaining MB titles.

[Dragon78]

Finally.

[drush9999]

Great news, hopefully the later ones come as well

[Winslow Leach]

Excellent news! One of my favorite Marx Brothers films.

[drak b]

Definitely agree with all those who are hoping for the remaining MB films to make it to blu-ray soon.

For those keeping score, Warner still has:
Room Service (1938)
At the Circus (1939)
Go West (1940)
The Big Store (1941)

Sadly, my copies of all of these came in the The Marx Brothers Collection, itself a victim of bad pressings. All of those discs are failing or failed...

[Ned Brainard]

Originally Posted by drak b

Definitely agree with all those who are hoping for the remaining MB films to make it to blu-ray soon.

For those keeping score, Warner still has:
Room Service (1938)
At the Circus (1939)
Go West (1940)
The Big Store (1941)

Sadly, my copies of all of these came in the The Marx Brothers Collection, itself a victim of bad pressings. All of those discs are failing or failed...

It sounds like you got a later pressing. Interestingly enough, that's exactly what happened with me on another January WAC release - The Prince and the Pauper. I picked up a DVD copy of it at Costco around 2007 or 2008. Since it was in a snapper case, I figured it was old stock, and I never scrutinized the disc when I discovered the Warner rot debacle several years later. I figured the snapper case indicated that the disc pre-dated the rot era by several years. Well, I was wrong as I discovered in more recent years that the disc had rotted. It looks like the disc itself was a later Cinram pressing, but I guess they still had existing stock of the old snapper cases. Sort of weird, but plausible. Anyway, I'm glad to be able to pick up new blu-rays for both The Prince and the Pauper and A Day at the Races.

As for A Day at the Races, I wonder if the blue tint for the Blue Ventian Waters segment will be reinstated. When I first saw the film on TCM in the late 1990s, the blue tint was present, but the 2004 DVD lacked it. I would like to see it reinstated for the blu, but I'll be buying it regardless.

[Dragon78]

I hope it doesn't take as long to get the rest of the movies.

[malakaheso]

^^I wouldn't hold my breath. The timeline posted by MikeZ is hardly encouraging.

Will definitely buy this blu though. Love the film.

[Dragon78]

What timeline?

[JasonMichael]

Originally Posted by malakaheso

^^I wouldn't hold my breath. The timeline posted by MikeZ is hardly encouraging.

Will definitely buy this blu though. Love the film.

Originally Posted by Dragon78

What timeline?

I assume malalakeso is referring to this:

Originally Posted by MikeZ.

Silver Screen Collection ( 5 films ) 2016
A Night At The Opera 2021
A Day At The Races 2023

[jimknut]

Originally Posted by Ned Brainard

It sounds like you got a later pressing. Interestingly enough, that's exactly what happened with me on another January WAC release - The Prince and the Pauper. I picked up a DVD copy of it at Costco around 2007 or 2008. Since it was in a snapper case, I figured it was old stock, and I never scrutinized the disc when I discovered the Warner rot debacle several years later. I figured the snapper case indicated that the disc pre-dated the rot era by several years. Well, I was wrong as I discovered in more recent years that the disc had rotted. It looks like the disc itself was a later Cinram pressing, but I guess they still had existing stock of the old snapper cases. Sort of weird, but plausible. Anyway, I'm glad to be able to pick up new blu-rays for both The Prince and the Pauper and A Day at the Races.

As for A Day at the Races, I wonder if the blue tint for the Blue Ventian Waters segment will be reinstated. When I first saw the film on TCM in the late 1990s, the blue tint was present, but the 2004 DVD lacked it. I would like to see it reinstated for the blu, but I'll be buying it regardless.

I, too, would like to see the film's tinting restored. I doubt if it will, which means I WON'T be buying it on blu-ray.

[GrouchoFan]

Why did it take me THREE WHOLE DAYS to hear about this?!?

EXCELLENT NEWS!!!

[Smegma]

I'm a happy man.

[Dragon78]

I hope they eventually release them as a collection like they did for their older movies.

[hasslein]

Originally Posted by drak b

Definitely agree with all those who are hoping for the remaining MB films to make it to blu-ray soon.

For those keeping score, Warner still has:
Room Service (1938)
At the Circus (1939)
Go West (1940)
The Big Store (1941)

Sadly, my copies of all of these came in the The Marx Brothers Collection, itself a victim of bad pressings. All of those discs are failing or failed...

Do you have the 5 or the 7 disc set?

[drak b]

Originally Posted by hasslein

Do you have the 5 or the 7 disc set?

The five disc release (2 discs are double sided with a movie on each side):



What's the 7 disc set? I see the TCM Greatest Classic Films Collection set, but that only has four of the seven movies in this set.