Monkey Business

1952 • 1h 37m •

Comedy Science Fiction

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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.

"It's some fun!"

Top Billed Cast

Cary Grant

Barnaby Fulton

Ginger Rogers

Edwina Fulton

Charles Coburn

Oliver Oxley

Marilyn Monroe

Lois Laurel

Hugh Marlowe

Hank Entwhistle

Henri Letondal

Jerome Kitzel

Robert Cornthwaite

Dr. Zoldeck

Larry Keating

GJ Culverly

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2024-07-14

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 academic into a small child. He also feels a bit like a new man, too! This wears off after a short while, so he gets his wife "Edwina" (Ginger Rogers) to sit in on his next experiment - only this time he ta...