http://filmweviews.com We like movies! Sun, 05 Jul 2009 20:54:34 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Hackenbush! Hackenbush! Calling Dr. Hackenbush, aka Groucho Marx, and his brothers Chico and Harpo who led the wild hijinks in this comedy classic set in both a sanatorium and at a horse racing track. Highlights include Groucho entertaining a young lady at a table with a centerpiece so big he has ... http://filmweviews.com/groovymovieguy/a-day-at-the-races/ This Marx Brothers' follow-up to "A Night at the Opera," completes the double feature of what most critics -- and fans -- consider to be the comedy team's two best films. When Dr. Hugo Hackenbush (Groucho) comes on staff at Standish Sanitarium, owner Judy Standish (Maureen O'Sullivan) hopes he can ... http://filmweviews.com/moviemoll/a-day-at-the-races-2/ The Marx Brothers and a circus, it seems almost redundant. However, while "At the Circus" features a kinder, gentler version of the Marx Brothers there's still plenty of fun to go around. Although this isn't one of the trio's -- sometimes quartet's -- wildest extravaganzas, it's still better than a ... http://filmweviews.com/groovymovieguy/at-the-circus/ Not on par with the Marx Brothers best efforts, still "At the Circus" has some laugh-out-loud moments. A usual lame plot finds Groucho, Chico and Harpo trying to help a circus owner recover a stolen $10,000 before he loses everything. This film is a testament to how much Margaret Dumont ... http://filmweviews.com/moviemoll/at-the-circus-2/ Boy meets girl. Boy falls for girl. She's taken. There's complications. It's Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers in "Carefree." Astaire plays a psychiatrist who tries to do the right thing for his patient portrayed by Rogers. Guess what it leads to? Yep, dancing and romance. One of the best dance numbers is ... http://filmweviews.com/groovymovieguy/carefree/ This movie would be worth seeing for the slow motion dream sequence dance number alone. Fortunately, there's plenty more to recommend "Carefree," Astaire and Rogers eighth film pairing. Fred Astaire plays psychiatrist Tony Flagg, who takes on Amanda Cooper (Ginger Rogers) as a patient at the request of her fiancé, ... http://filmweviews.com/moviemoll/carefree-2/ George Burns and Gracie Allen play a rich man's lawyer and daughter who wind up in a tangled web of wackiness. Daddy leaves his New York mansion to spend some time at his childhood home and leaves his money -- temporarily -- to his daughter for a ruse. The rich ... http://filmweviews.com/groovymovieguy/here-comes-cookie/ Gracie Allen's madcap comedy is fully unleashed in "Here Comes Cookie." Gracie's millionaire father Harrison Allen (George Barbier) signs control of his fortune over to Gracie for two months in a ploy to convince her sister's gold-digging suitor Ramon (Rafael Storm) that she and her father are penniless. In Gracie's perpetually ... http://filmweviews.com/moviemoll/here-comes-cookie-2/ The Marx Brothers go to college in "Horse Feathers," but not with honors. This movie is more like a series of sketches rather than an evolving plot. Prof. Quincy Adams Wagstaff (Groucho Marx) becomes head of Huxtable College which his son Frank (Zeppo Marx) attends. The new president decides ... http://filmweviews.com/groovymovieguy/horse-feathers/ As madcap as any Marx Brothers film, International House packs non-stop fun into just over an hour. Not only is it a perfect vehicle for W.C. Fields in his first talking feature film, it sports classic dialogue between George Burns as the hotel doctor and Gracie Allen as his nurse. ... http://filmweviews.com/moviemoll/international-house/