No Monkey Business | |
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Directed by | Thomas Bentley |
Produced by | Julius Haimann C. M. Woolf |
Written by |
Joe May Károly Nóti Roger Burford Val Guest |
Starring |
Gene Gerrard June Clyde Renée Houston Richard Hearne |
Music by |
Hans May Benjamin Frankel |
Cinematography | Claude Friese-Greene |
Edited by | Edward B. Jarvis |
Production
company |
Radius Productions
|
Distributed by | General Film Distributors |
Release date
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12 November 1935 |
Running time
|
78 minutes |
Country | United Kingdom |
Language | English |
No Monkey Business is a 1935 British comedy film directed by Marcel Varnel and starring Gene Gerrard, June Clyde and Renée Houston.
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 embarressments 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.
The film was made by the independent company Radius Productions at the British and Dominion Studios at Elstree.