Howard Hawks’s great comedy, from 1952, overlaps doubly with current cinematic events. It features one of Cary Grant’s greatest performances, yet isn’t included in BAM’s ongoing retrospective of the actor’s films. (Friday’s offering, “Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House,” is a superbly conceived comedy of postwar civilization and its discontents.) “Monkey Business” is also one of Hawks’s best films (though they’re hard to choose from); its subject, the moral effects of a rejuvenation potion, is cognate with a movie that Anthony Lane reviews in the magazine this week, “Cold Souls,” about a man who deals with his emotional malaise by having his soul surgically removed. I discuss “Monkey Business” in this clip.
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