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Monkey Business

Name: Monkey Business
Director: Howard Hawks
Genre: Comedy, Sci-fi, Romance
Released: 1952
Duration: 1 h 32 min
Cast: Cary Grant, Ginger Rogers, Charles Coburn, Marilyn Monroe, Hugh Marlowe

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Comedy
Sci-fi

1952
Howard Hawks
92 mins
U

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Screwball comedy starring Cary Grant and Ginger Rogers. A scientist carrying out research into the ageing process makes an accidental discovery while working with chimps.

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A star rating of 5 out of 5.

Tony Sloman

This isn't the Marx Brothers Paramount classic, but still one of the funniest and smartest Hollywood comedies. It's a movie that has never secured the reputation it deserves, considering its pedigree. It was made by, arguably, Hollywood's greatest ever studio director, Howard Hawks, who was also responsible for the scatty Bringing Up Baby and dynamic His Girl Friday. Hawks is reunited here with his star from those films, Cary Grant, who gives a sublime performance as a man reduced to juvenility for arcane plot reasons too complex to divulge. Ginger Rogers is a great foil, but it's Marilyn Monroe who steals the movie, aided and abetted by avuncular Charles Coburn. Hawks jazzes up the story with witty optical effects, and, all in all, this one is a humdinger.

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6.9/10

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