{"id":11752,"date":"2017-01-29T21:00:01","date_gmt":"2017-01-30T03:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/?p=11752"},"modified":"2017-01-27T15:49:05","modified_gmt":"2017-01-27T21:49:05","slug":"monkey-business-1931-norman-z-mcleod","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/archives\/11752","title":{"rendered":"Monkey Business (1931, Norman Z. McLeod)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sometimes after a very long Monday, you ask the laptop, &#8220;what&#8217;s the shortest, dumbest movie we&#8217;ve got,&#8221; and the laptop says how about that Marx Brothers movie that you can never remember if you&#8217;ve seen or not because it has the same title as <a href=\"\/journal\/archives\/198\">a Howard Hawks movie<\/a> you&#8217;ve definitely seen, and you go &#8220;sure okay.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image16\/monkeybiz2.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>Appropriate title for a movie that&#8217;s just a bunch of fooling around.  The Four Marx Brothers &#8211; even Zeppo, who is properly integrated with the others for once &#8211; stowaway on a ship, then anarchy ensues.  A couple of warring gangsters are aboard, so the guys split alliances and mess with everyone.  There&#8217;s plenty of music, and Thelma Todd of <em><a href=\"\/journal\/archives\/609\">Horse Feathers<\/a><\/em> (who would die suspiciously before she was 30), and a gangster&#8217;s daughter whom Zeppo likes.  There&#8217;s a character named Alkie Briggs (Harry Woods, who played the coward Robert Ford in one of the first Jesse James movies) which makes me wish I wrote movies just so I could reuse the name Alkie.  And I forget exactly why Harpo had Maurice Chevalier&#8217;s passport.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image16\/monkeybiz1.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p><em>Groucho and Thelma take a break from the action:<\/em><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image16\/monkeybiz3.jpg\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sometimes after a very long Monday, you ask the laptop, &#8220;what&#8217;s the shortest, dumbest movie we&#8217;ve got,&#8221; and the laptop says how about that Marx Brothers movie that you can never remember if you&#8217;ve seen or not because it has the same title as a Howard Hawks movie you&#8217;ve definitely seen, and you go &#8220;sure [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[343,508,509],"class_list":["post-11752","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie","tag-1930s","tag-marx-brothers","tag-norman-mcleod"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11752","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11752"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11752\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11833,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11752\/revisions\/11833"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11752"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11752"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11752"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}