TURN-ONS AND TURN-OFFS IN CURRENT HOME ENTERTAINMENT RELEASES : Excellent Good Fair Poor : VIDEOCASSETTES
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“Monkey Business.” MCA. $59.95. This is the one in which the Marx Brothers stow away aboard an Art Deco ocean liner in kippered-herring barrels. The phony Italian-accented Chico tickles the ivories virtuoso style, the blissfully sweet and mute Harpo strums his harp with equal aplomb, dapper Zeppo gets the girl, but Groucho, of course, gets the best lines. Director Norman Z. McLeod was in charge of the mayhem, S. J. Perelman had a hand in the script and “Monkey Business” is just as funny as it was in 1931.
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