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Monkey Business (1931)
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Reviews Counted: 11
Fresh: 10
Rotten:1
Average Rating: 7.9/10
Runtime: 77 mins
Genre: Comedies
Synopsis: The madcap Marx Brothers stowaway on a luxury cruise ship in this fast-paced, laugh-filled farce. While they manage to elude capture by the ship's captain and crew by staging impromptu puppet shows... The madcap Marx Brothers stowaway on a luxury cruise ship in this fast-paced, laugh-filled farce. While they manage to elude capture by the ship's captain and crew by staging impromptu puppet shows and hiding in herring barrels, getting off the boat is another matter. Before long they're all impersonating Maurice Chevalier in order to disembark and begin their new careers as mob bodyguards. [More]
Starring: Marx Brothers, Thelma Todd, Ruth Hall, Harry Woods
Starring: Marx Brothers, Thelma Todd, Ruth Hall, Harry Woods, Tom Kennedy, Ben Taggart, Otto Fries
Director: Norman Z. McLeod
Director: Norman Z. McLeod
Screenwriter: Arthur Sheekman
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Reviews for Monkey Business
The Brothers offer lunacy, anarchy, and unbound nonsense for their Depression audience as they mock the foolish ways the rich behave aboard the luxury liner.
Probably only bettered by Horse Feathers and Duck Soup in the Marx library.
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