Monkey Business (1952)
Comedy • 1h 37m
Director: Howard Hawks
Cast: Cary Grant, Ginger Rogers, Charles Coburn, Marilyn Monroe, Hugh Marlowe, Henri Letondal, Robert Cornthwaite, Larry Keating, Douglas Spencer, Esther Dale, George Winslow, Marjorie Holliday, Harry Carey, Jr., Nico Minardos, Charlotte Austin, Harry Bartell, Faire Binney, Tex Brodus, Olive Carey, Harry Carter, Melinda Casey, Ronnie Clark, Russ Clark, Heinie Conklin, George Eldredge, Kathleen Freeman, Terry Goodman, Dabbs Greer, Howard Hawks, George Hoagland, Perk Lazelle, Rudy Lee, Louis Lettieri, Mickey Little, Emmett Lynn, Paul Maxey, John McKee, Bill McLean, Joseph Mell, Christopher Milne, Jonathan Milne, Ray Montgomery, Roger Moore, Brad Morrow, Forbes Murray, Robert Nichols, Jerry Paris, Maudie Prickett, Jimmy Roebuck, Harry Seymour, Jerry Sheldon, Olan Soule, Gil Stratton, Ruth Warren, Mack Williams, Isabel Withers
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About the film
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.
Director: Howard Hawks
Director: Howard Hawks
Sources: Criterion Forum (opens in a new tab)
Criterion, 4k transfer
Director: Howard Hawks
Director: Howard Hawks
Sources: Criterion Forum (opens in a new tab) · slow.pics (opens in a new tab)
Criterion 4K Blu-ray (not by much, caps)
Closest to original: 1995 Columbia LaserDisc
But Sony 4K Blu-ray is the best available one.
From cbc:
I much prefer the 4K Blu-ray track. LaserDisc has several nasty constant hums, and even after you remove that, the detail level is on-par with the 4K Blu-ray and has a lot of crackling. The 4K Blu-ray has some variable noise reduction, but it's done well and non-intrusive IMO, I watched it with that track and was happy.
Directors: Henry Hathaway & Howard Hawks & Henry King & Henry Koster & Jean Negulesco
More Comedy on Blu-ray
Director: Ernst Lubitsch
4K restoration from Original Camera Negative
Director: Jack Conway
4K restoration from safety preservation elements
4K restoration from safety preservation elements
Director: Jack Conway
4K restoration from safety preservation elements
Director: William Dieterle
4K restoration from Original Camera Negative
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