Monkey Business

1952 PG-13 1h 37m

6.7 / 10 291

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6.7/10

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Research chemist Barnaby Fulton works on a fountain of youth pill for a chemical company. One of the labs chimps gets loose in the laboratory and mixes chemicals, but then pours the mix into the water cooler. When trying one of his own samples, washed down with water from the cooler, Fulton begins to act just like a twenty-year-old and believes his potion is working. Soon his wife and boss are also behaving like children.

Director Howard Hawks

Writers

Charles Lederer Ben Hecht I. A. L. Diamond

Stars

Cary Grant Ginger Rogers Charles Coburn

Oxley Receptionist (uncredited)

Harry Carey, Jr.

Reporter (uncredited)

Nico Minardos

Man at Pool (uncredited)

Charlotte Austin

Student (uncredited)

Harry Bartell

Scientist (uncredited)

Club Patron (uncredited)

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Olive Carey

Johnny's Mother (uncredited)

Harry Carter

Scientist (uncredited)

Policeman (uncredited)

Heinie Conklin

House Painter (uncredited)

George Eldredge

Mr. Peabody (uncredited)

Kathleen Freeman

Mrs. Brannigan (uncredited)

Narrator (voice) (uncredited)

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George Hoagland

Club Patron (uncredited)

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Perk Lazelle

Club Patron (uncredited)

Board Member (uncredited)

John McKee

Photographer (uncredited)

Policeman (uncredited)

Board Member (uncredited)

Robert Nichols

Garage Man (uncredited)

Jerry Paris

Scientist (uncredited)

Clothing Store Salesman (uncredited)

Pickwick Arms Clerk (uncredited)

Gil Stratton

Yale Man (uncredited)

Ruth Warren

Laundress (uncredited)

Mack Williams

Board Member (uncredited)

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Isabel Withers

Laundress (uncredited)

Comedy

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Geronimo1967 14 Jul 2024

7/10

Cary Grant is the professor "Fulton" working for "Oxley" (Charles Coburn) on a project to find some way of turning back time and reversing the ageing process. They are experimenting with various formulae on a selection of rather agile chimps, and it's actually one of them who manages to co come up with a solution that when, inadvertently, added to the water in the cooler manages to turn the academ...