Christmas at the New Beverly
Monkey Business
In one of their all-time great, gut-bustingly guffaw-filled films, their first based on an original screenplay instead of an adaptation of one of their Broadway shows, the Marx Brothers – Groucho, Harpo, Chico & Zeppo – set sail for hilarity as stowaways on an ocean liner. But their transatlantic antics get them mixed up with gangsters in a madcap display of comedic calamity.
- Director
- Norman Z. McLeod
- Writer
- S.J. Perelman and Will B. Johnstone
- Starring
- The Marx Brothers, Rockliffe Fellowes, Harry Woods, Thelma Todd, Ruth Hall
- Year
- 1931
- Country
- USA
- Format
- 35mm
- Running Time
- 77 minutes
Hit the Ice
Bud Abbott and Lou Costello get mixed up with gangsters, gun molls and gumshoes in one of their funniest and zaniest comedies. As would-be newspaper photographers, the boys are mistakenly hired as bank robbers by hospitalized underworld gangster Sheldon Leonard. Only after the “job” is finished do Bud and Lou realize what they’ve done, so it’s off to the ice skating mecca of Sun Valley to track down Leonard and his gang before the police put the boys permanently on ice. Produced at the zenith of the comic duo’s movie career, the box office hit features songress Ginny Simms and Johnny Long and his Orchestra along with the slapstick chases and burlesque routines that made the team famous. (Universal)
- Director
- Charles Lamont
- Writer
- Screenplay by Robert Lees & Frederic Rinaldo & John Grant, Original story by True Boardman
- Starring
- Bud Abbott, Lou Costello, Ginny Simms, Patrick Knowles
- Year
- 1943
- Country
- USA
- Format
- 35mm
- Running Time
- 82 minutes