Sam Woods directs The Marx Brothers in this zany comedy musical about a cocky vet mistaken for a renowned physician,  brought in to save a sanitarium by the racetracks.

A variety show with a plot so convoluted it allows ballet sequences and a gag involving black face, that comes across as sweet rather than hateful…. even if they fit proceedings about as well as a giant’s wristwatch. There are musical highpoints (the Harpo and Chico piano sequence and enthusiastic hymnal number “All God’s Chillun Got Rhythm” are standouts) but the movie is at its very best when the brothers are bouncing directly off each other in verbal warfare. They practiced these twisty skits on the vaudeville circuit before filming them, which may explain why the laugh count, in what looks like unbridled insanity, is quite so high. “Thank you… Thank! YO!”

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