Side-splitting Marx Brothers comedy has horse doctor Groucho trying to keep Maureen O'Sullivan's sanitarium from foreclosing while dealing with hypochondriac patient Margaret Dumont. When the boys decide to enter a struggling bronco in a race with a big payoff, will they save the day or just wind up horsing around?
Directed by
Sam Wood
Written by
Robert Pirosh (story) & George Seaton (story) Robert Pirosh (screenplay) & George Seaton (screenplay) & George Oppenheimer (screenplay)
Starring
Groucho Marx (Dr. Hugo Z. Hackenbush); Chico Marx (Tony); Harpo Marx (Stuffy); Allan Jones (Gil Stewart); Maureen O'Sullivan (Judy Standish); Margaret Dumont (Emily Upjohn); Leonard Ceeley (Whitmore); Douglass Dumbrille (J.D. Morgan); Esther Muir (Flo Marlowe); Sig Ruman (Dr. Leopold X. Steinberg - as Sig Rumann) Robert Middlemass ... Sheriff); Vivien Fay (Solo dancer); Ivie Anderson (Singer in roadhouse and barn); The Crinoline Choir. Please contact SFC to add other cast members and characters.
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