Filmbrain's Screen Capture Quiz: Round 12, Week 7

"You call this a party? The beer is warm, the women cold, and I'm hot under the collar." Just one of many great S.J. Perelman lines from Norman Z. McLeod's (and not Howard Hawks') Monkey Business, one of the classic five features the brothers Marx made for Adolph Zukor's Paramount Pictures. I recently introduced a certain young viewer to all five of these films, and I realized how long it had been since I'd seen them all. Far more anarchic than their later films with MGM, one can almost understand why depression-era audiences never quite took to them. (Thalberg believed Duck Soup's failure was due to its lack of love story.) I'd be hard pressed to choose a favorite, though the Maurice Chevalier sequence from Monkey Business, wherein each of the brothers unsuccessfully attempts to get through immigration with the chanteur's stolen passport by crooning his signature tune, You've Brought a New Kind of Love to Me, might just be one of the best scenes of the lot. This week: a film I may have used in an earlier round -- I honestly can't recall. What I do remember is arguing about the film on its opening night with an extremely opinionated Frenchman over way too many martinis. Ahh....those were the days. Name the film. (Special Filmbrain seal of approval to those who can get it from the alt-text clue alone.) Submit your answers to this address. Good luck!

Comments

[Aaron Hillis]

Well, Domino has certainly gone a lot of places. Is it 30 Days in the Hole?