The Cocoanuts (1929) | |
| Director(s) | Robert Florey, Joseph Santley |
| Producer(s) | Monta Bell, Jesse L. Lasky (executive uncredited), Walter Wanger (executive uncredited), Walter Wanger (uncredited) |
| Top Genres | Comedy, Musical |
| Top Topics | Pre-Code Cinema, Slapstick |
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The Cocoanuts (1929) was a Comedy - Musical Film directed by Robert Florey and Joseph Santley and produced by Jesse L. Lasky, Walter Wanger and Monta Bell.
SYNOPSIS
The first, and widely regarded to be the zaniest, of the Marx Brothers' films. The film takes place in a Miami hotel during the land boom, and the Marxes hilariously oversee the arrival and departure of herds of comical millionaire travelers. The brothers freely reign ad-lib and riff on the Kaufman script. Florey was better known for his expressionist horror films.
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The Cocoanuts (1929, Robert Florey and Joseph Santley)
By Andrew Wickliffe on Jul 7, 2018 From The Stop ButtonThe 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 at all a... Read full article
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Hammer: Well, my mother and father talked it over and they finally moved to New York, a little house in the Bronx. And it was in that little house that Abraham Lincoln was born, much to my father's surprise. And that, boys and girls, was the beginning of the Lincoln Highway.
Jamison: Any luck with the 4:30?
Hammer: Yeah. It didn't hit me.
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Of the film's two directors, Groucho Marx once said, "One of them French-born Robert Florey didn't understand English, and the other one former dance director Joseph Santley didn't understand comedy."
Filmed on a stage in New York City. Sound films were still so new that soundproofing was not installed, so the film had to be shot in the early hours of the morning to reduce outside traffic noise.
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