Monkey Business (1931 film)

• Groucho Marx: Groucho
• Harpo Marx Harpo
• Chico Marx Chico
• Zeppo Marx, Zeppo
• Rockliffe Fellowes: J. J. 'Big Joe' Helton
• Harry L. Woods: Alky Briggs
• Thelma Todd: Lucille Briggs
• Ruth Hall: Mary Helton
• Tom Kennedy: First Mate Gibson
• Cyril Ring: Party Guest

The Marx Brothers at Sea ( Original Title: Monkey Business ) was the third film of the Marx Brothers Groucho published, Chico, Harpo and Zeppo Marx. It was filmed in 1931.

Action

The Marx Brothers try to reach as stowaways on a ship from Europe to America. They get on their flight from the ship's crew in a dispute between the two rival gangsters Big Joe Helton and Alky Briggs. Groucho and Zeppo to help on one side Briggs to cope with Helton, while Harpo and Chico are hired on the other side as his bodyguards. After arriving in New York Helton throws a party for his daughter Mary. Briggs dedicates this one on the terrace Groucho in his plan to kidnap Mary to blackmail her father. Here, Zeppo has fallen in love on the passage in Mary and Groucho tries to land the woman of Lucille Briggs. Finally, it is possible the brothers to liberate Mary.

Comments

Classic scenes in the film are:

• To qualify as stowaways on board, the four brothers give at passport control in sequence as a singer Maurice Chevalier (even Harpo ) and drive the controller so almost to madness.

Your imitation of Maurice Chevalier showed the Marx already in her Broadway stage play I'll Say She Is

• Also legendary are the scenes in which Groucho and Chico creep down to eat in the captain's cabin and Harpo hiding fleeing an officer in a Punch and Judy show.