The House That Shadows Built the Marx Brothers, with Davison Clark playing Mr. Lee, Theatrical Producer, which was intended to promote their forthcoming 1931 film "Monkey Business" (Clark later played the role of the frustrated Passport Official in "Monkey Business" and would also appear in the war scene in "Duck Soup"). The segment, containing material which was never included in any other Marx Brothers film, is a re-working of the first scene of their first successful Broadway revue "I'll Say She Is" (1924), which Groucho considered to have been the funniest work in the Brothers' career. Except for a few name changes and additional gags,
Emil and the Detectives (1931 film) the notion of smart, organised schoolkids chasing a criminal in the big city." There are several film adaptions of "Emil and the Detectives". The British 1935 film and the German 1954 film are direct remakes of this 1931 film, using most of Wilder's screenplay and (in the case of the 1935 film) even recreating many of the same camera shots. Emil and the Detectives (1931 film) Emil and the Detectives () is a 1931 German adventure film directed by Gerhard Lamprecht and starring Rolf Wenkhaus. It is based on the 1929 novel by Erich Kästner, who also contributed to the