Monkey business

United States, 1952

Film
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Marilyn Monroe, Cary Grant, Ginger Rogers and Charles Coburn star in the zany Howard Hawks comedy about a chemist who discovers a potent rejuvenation drug. Dr. Barnaby Fulton is a staid scientist working on a youth restoring serum with no success when one of the laboratory chimpanzees accidentally concocts the formula. Fulton and his wife try it with hilarious results and successive doses result in increasingly more juvenile behaviour. When others taste the potion, including Fulton’s stuffy boss and his voluptuous secretary, the laboratory really goes wild!

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Credits

director

Howard Hawks

producer

Sol Siegel

production company

Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation

Duration

01:33:00:00

Production places
United States
Production dates
1952

Collection metadata

ACMI Identifier

305950

Language

English

Audience classification

G

Sound/audio

Sound

Colour

Black and White

Holdings

VHS; Access Print (Section 1)

Wikidata

Q545725

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