Directed by Howard Hawks
Written by Ben Hecht, Charles Lederer and I.A.L. Diamond
First 9:30
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Cary Grant stars as a mixed up chemist who is working on a vitality potion. He's testing it on chimps. One chimp escapes and makes its own potion, which actually works. The chimp puts it into the water and shenanigans ensue.
Not too funny, but really well made. The opening where Cary Grant keeps interrupting the credits is clever. Ginger Rogers, who plays Grant's wife, is pretty and charming. She is funny, but not laugh out loud funny, when she's acting like a kid. Grant acts his ass off when he's acting like a child around a bunch of boys playing cowboys and Indians (Native Americans). Marilyn Monroe has a small part.
7/10
December 31, 2008 at 4:02 PM
I'd have to agree with the 'not too funny, but really well made'. Silly and entertaining, it definitely keeps one's attention.
Ginger Rogers is a really great actress. I hadn't seen in, well, anything that I can remember. I've always associated her with dancing, but she was really great.
Give it a go if you have an afternoon to kill and are in a black and white, silly mood.
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