The Cocoanuts (1929, Robert Florey and Joseph Santley)

The Stop Button Posted by Andrew Wickliffe on Jul 7, 2018

The only stand-out sequence in The Cocoanuts comes at the end, when Chico is playing the piano. One of the directors–or both of them–finally had a good instinct and cut to a close-up of Chico’s hands playing. It overrides the first shot of the piano playing, which doesn’t show Chico’s hands read more