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No Monkey Business

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Wikipedia article




'No Monkey Business' is a 1935 British comedy film directed by Marcel Varnel and starring Gene Gerrard, June Clyde and Rene Houston.[https://web.archive.org/web/20090113222208/http://ftvdb.bfi.org.uk/sift/title/44413 BFI.org]

Synopsis



After a music hall performer has his performing partner, an ape, confiscated by his financial creditors he persuades his assistant to dress up and impersonate the animal so that he can continue his act. However a series of embarrassments arise when they are invited to stay at a country house by a young woman who wishes to demonstrate to her father her theory that apes are as intelligent as people.

Production



The film was made by the independent company Radius Productions at the British and Dominion Studios at Elstree.

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Bibliography



* Sutton, David R. 'A chorus of raspberries: British film comedy 19291939'. University of Exeter Press, 2000.


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