No Monkey Business

No Monkey Business
No Monkey Business
Directed by	Marcel Varnel
Written by	Joe May; Károly Nóti; Roger Burford; Val Guest;
Produced by	Julius Haimann; C. M. Woolf;
Starring	Gene Gerrard; June Clyde; Renée Houston; Richard Hearne;
Cinematography	Claude Friese-Greene
Edited by	Edward B. Jarvis
Music by	Hans May; Benjamin Frankel;
Production; company	Radius Productions
Distributed by	General Film Distributors
Release date	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.^[1]

Plot[edit]

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[edit]

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

Cast[edit]

Gene Gerrard as Jim Carroll
June Clyde as Clare Barrington
Renée Houston as Jessie
Richard Hearne as Charlie
Peter Haddon as Arthur
Claude Dampier as Roberts
Hugh Wakefield as Prof. Barrington
Fred Duprez as Theatre Manager
Clifford Heatherley as Bailiff
O. B. Clarence as Professor
Robert Nainby as Professor
Reuben Castang as Ape Trainer
Alexander Field as Greengrocer
Hal Gordon as Circus Proprietor
Wally Patch as Stage Hand
Charles Paton as Lodging House Keeper

References[edit]

^ BFI.org

Bibliography[edit]

Sutton, David R. A chorus of raspberries: British film comedy 1929–1939. University of Exeter Press, 2000.

External links[edit]

No Monkey Business at IMDb

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[1] BFI.org

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