Harpo Marx hypnotizes a horse. What could possibly go wrong?
Some racetrack Johnnies are talking between races when one wonders if you can hynotize a horse into thinking it's a champion. The idea sets in motion a series of hilarious events.
Acting
Harpo's final film role — pure silent-era magic in 1957.
Direction
Ralph Nelson keeps this nonsense tighter than it deserves.
Director
Ralph Nelson
Harpo Marx
The Jinx
Marilyn Maxwell
Dolly
Stuart Erwin
Sentimental Mousie
Barry Sullivan
Hard Boiled Harry
Addison Richards
Jamieson
Kenny Delmar
Parker
John Carradine
Felix the Great
Wallace Ford
Rebel
John Kerr
Self - Announcing Next Week's Show
James McCallion
Reporter
Tom Palmer
Carruthers
Frank Sully
Cop
Jason Wingreen
Bellboy
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
This was Harpo Marx's final film appearance — he spent his last years writing books and appearing on talk shows instead.
The 'racetrack Johnny' archetype was already dated by 1957; this film captures the last gasp of that specific postwar gambling culture before Vegas took over the American imagination.
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