Details

Release year: 1937

Storyline

A veterinarian posing as a doctor teams with a singer and his friends as they struggle to save an upstate New York sanitarium with the help of a misfit racehorse.

Top credits

Directors

Sam Wood

Writers

Cast

Groucho Marx — Dr. Hackenbush
Chico Marx — Tony
Harpo Marx — Stuffy
The Marx Brothers

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Awards

0 wins & 1 nomination

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Did you know

• With a running time of one hour and 50 minutes, this is the longest of The Marx Brothers' theatrical films.

• This is the only film of The Marx Brothers to receive an Oscar nomination in a competitive category, being nominated for Dave Gould's dance direction. Groucho Marx would go on to win an honorary Oscar in 1974.

• Groucho Marx's character initially was to have been named Dr. Quackenbush, which he and everyone else thought was too silly a name to offend anyone. However, MGM's legal department discovered at least a dozen legitimate U.S. doctors named Quackenbush, so for legal reasons the name was changed to Hackenbush. Although initially dismayed by the name change, Groucho later came to like it. He cited "Dr. Hackenbush" as his favorite character from his films, and even occasionally signed letters to friends using that name.