Monkey Business (1931 film)

Monkey Business is a 1931 American PreCode comedy film. It is the third of the Marx Brothers released movies, and the first not to be an adaptation of one of their Broadway shows. The film also stars comedienne Thelma Todd. It is directed by Norman Z. McLeod with screenplay by S. J. Perelman and Will B. Johnstone. The story takes place in large part on an ocean liner crossing the Atlantic Ocean.

Two famous scenes include all four brothers trying to sneak through a passenger checkpoint by pretending to be Maurice Chevalier, and Harpos attempt to hide from the authorities by posing as a puppet in a Punch and Judy childrens show.Typical for many Marx Brothers films, production censors demanded changes in some lines with sexual innuendo. Monkey Business was banned in some countries because censors feared it would encourage anarchic tendencies. ........

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