Monkey Business Page #11

Synopsis: Barnaby Fulton is a research chemist working on a fountain of youth pill for a chemical company. While trying a sample dose on himself, he accidentally gets a dose of a mixture added to the water cooler and believes his potion is what is working. The mixture temporarily causes him to feel and act like a teenager, including correcting his vision. When his wife gets a dose that is even larger, she regresses even further into her childhood. When an old boyfriend meets her in this state, he believes that her never wanting to see him again means a divorce and a chance for him.
Genre: Comedy
Director(s): Howard Hawks
Production: Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
 
IMDB:
7.0
Rotten Tomatoes:
88%
APPROVED
Year:
1952
97 min
686 Views


- Don't you remember?

I carried you in here

when you were a baby.

- Oh, that's impossible.

- Well, don't you remember anything?

Well, sure.

The last thing l...

- I was scalping Hank Entwhistle.

- Oh, Barnaby.

What's that?

- I don't know.

- Hey, you'd better take this.

Yes.

Come on, sweetheart.

We oughta find out who that is.

Yes, indeed, we must.

Dr. Fulton, I'm so glad.

- What's going on?

- They've taken it. It was in the water.

- What do you mean?

- The monkey mixed it.

I'll get you!

I can make a monkey out of Rudolph!

I'll get you!

Oh, what a job you've done!

No fair using hot water!

Hello, Barnaby!

How are you, old boy?

I knew you'd pull out of it.

Here's a contract for you,

signed, sealed and delivered!

You're a genius, old boy!

- Hey!

- I'll get even!

You've got a fire hose there!

What's the idea?

Get off of me!

You're drowning me!

Oh, Miss Laurel!

Come on in and join the party!

- Come on in!

- Aah!

There he is!

There's the man who did it to me!

Mr. Oxly, please!

Aah!

Mr. Oxly, don't squirt me!

Barnaby, can you hear me?

- Yes, dear.

- I've been thinking.

Uh-huh.

I'm just beginning to.

I was wondering,

if I had my choice...

of living these

last three days over again...

what I'd say.

Oh, let's hear it.

That interests me.

Well, we've got a new contract...

we've had a lot of excitement...

and we're going out on the town

tonight, just the two of us.

That's funny.

I can't hear you.

I didn't say anything anyway.

I was just thinking.

- I was thinking about you.

- Care to elaborate on that?

About your not

being disappointed...

when you found out that it

was Esther who'd invented the formula.

- Mm-hmm.

- Your suspenders would look better up.

Imagine, the secret of youth,

locked up in the head of a monkey.

Do you think they'll ever

find out how to make it?

I don't know.

They've got Esther working awfully hard.

Darling, why weren't

you disappointed?

Well, I've got a new formula.

Barnaby, if you start that

all over again, so help me, I'll...

Oh, I like that dress, yes.

- Oh, you do?

- Uh-huh.

All right,

what's the new formula?

Well, it doesn't come

in packages or bottles.

You're old only when

you forget you're young.

- Come on, say some more.

- Hmm?

It's a word

you keep in your heart...

a light you have

in your eyes...

someone you hold

in your arms.

My, I'm glad I'm going

out with you tonight.

Come here.

- Do you like my formula?

- Mm-hmm.

Makes you think, doesn't it?

I can use a lot of that.

What time did you

order the table?

Hmm?

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Ben Hecht

Ben Hecht (1894–1964) was an American screenwriter, director, producer, playwright, journalist and novelist. A journalist in his youth, he went on to write thirty-five books and some of the most entertaining screenplays and plays in America. He received screen credits, alone or in collaboration, for the stories or screenplays of some seventy films. more…

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