A husband who frequents cabarets has a shrewish wife who pursues him, leaving a very pretty baby to get into trouble while she is away..


The first time I saw Monkey Business I choked on my coffee—not from laughter alone but from the sheer audacity of its rhythm: a metronome set to heart-attack tempo, ticking between marital noir and infant surrealism. Picture a flickering nitrate print, the emulsion scarred like a barroom mirror, yet every wound catc...

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Edward F. Cline

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" The first time I saw Monkey Business I choked on my coffee—not from laughter alone but from the sheer audacity of its rhythm: a metronome set to heart-attack tempo, ticking between marital noir and infant surrealism. Picture a flickering nitrate print, the emulsion scarred like a barroom mirror, yet every wound catching the light. That is the texture of this 1926 one-reeler, a film that refuses to behave like its contemporaries. Where Their Baby sentimentalizes parental panic and The Cheater ..."
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