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No Monkey Business is a British film of genre Comedy directed by Marcel Varnel with Gene Gerrard

No Monkey Business (1935)

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Length 1h18
Directed by ,    
Genres Comedy
Rating54% 2.7318152.7318152.7318152.7318152.731815

No Monkey Business is a 1935 British comedy film directed by Marcel Varnel and starring Gene Gerrard, June Clyde and Renée Houston.

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 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.

Actors

Gene Gerrard

(Jim Carroll)June Clyde

(Clare Barrington)Hal Gordon

(Circus Proprietor)Richard Hearne
Charles Paton

(Lodging House Keeper)
And :
Fred Duprez
Clifford Heatherley
O. B. Clarence
Alexander Field
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