A Day at the Races had me laughing out loud, especially Groucho's level of insanity. But the whole crew is funny. Allan Jones has a lovely singing voice, and the musical numbers are... well they're very different from one another, but none of it matters. This is classic musical comedy. Hilarious nonsense and lots of musical numbers. I enjoyed this a lot.
There is a totally unnecessary bit of blackface. 1937. I honestly can't believe this kind of thing still worked in the late 1930s, but this is also very much a legacy of musical theatre in the U.S. Minstrelsy always ends up rearing its head. There was also a totally unnecessary blackface joke in a Deanna Durbin movie I watched last week.
I watched A Day at the Races on the Criterion Channel.
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