then immediately bolts, as a ship's steward approaches.

Gilligan Cut: There's no actual cut, but Zeppo achieves the same effect when he tells his love interest he'll never leave her.

The Ghost: Maurice Chevalier is said to be on the boat, as the Marxes stole his passport and try to use it to disembark, but he never actually appears on-screen.

Farmer's Daughter: Groucho complains that there aren't any in the barn.

The Family for the Whole Family: The rival bootleggers, Big Joe Helton and Alky Briggs.

Even Evil Has Loved Ones: Big Joe Helton is a ruthless racketeer, but he seems genuinely concerned for his daughter Mary.Deliberately Distressed Damsel: Played with when Mary Helton drops a handkerchief in front of Zeppo, who pockets it and then drops one for her to pick up.Closet Shuffle: Used by the stowaways to avoid getting caught.

Black-and-Gray Morality: Joe Helton may be a gangster, but at least he doesn't try to hold Alky Briggs' family hostage.

Joe Helton gives guns to Chico and Harpo. Don't hand weapons to people who don't know proper gun safety, somebody will get shot in the face. Both times he does so he immediately realizes that they are absentmindedly pointing them right at him, and grabs their hands to turn the guns aside.

Artistic License – Gun Safety: Alky Briggs hands revolvers to both Groucho and Zeppo on two separate occasions.

Not to be confused with Monkey Business, the 1952 Howard Hawks screwball comedy starring Cary Grant, Ginger Rogers and Marilyn Monroe, which involves the accidental invention of a youth potion. This was also the Brothers' first film written expressly for the screen rather than adapted from a stage play S. Like other early Marx films such as Horse Feathers and Duck Soup, Monkey Business is much more anarchic and gag-driven than later movies like A Night at the Opera, which heavily feature romance, musical numbers, and, well, plots. Thelma Todd co-stars as the flirtatious wife of one of the thugs. During and after the journey, the four become involved with an ongoing dispute between rivaling gangsters, which the four brothers solve in their own way. Groucho, Harpo, Chico and Zeppo play four stowaways, who spend much of the journey trying to avoid the ship's captain and his first mate. Much of the story takes place aboard an ocean liner bound for America from Europe. McLeod and starring the legendary Marx Brothers. Monkey Business is a 1931 comedy film directed by Norman Z.

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