Monkey Business (1931/77 minutes)

The anarchic third feature film starring the Marx Brothers is a pre-code masterpiece that was the quartet’s first movie written directly for the screen. Groucho, Harpo, Chico, and Zeppo are stowaways on a ship crossing the Atlantic Ocean embroiled with gangsters, romancing Thelma Todd, and each ludicrously pretending to be Maurice Chevalier when discovered.