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: Hello? Yes? Ice water in 318? Is that so? Where'd you get it? Oh, you want some.
Hammer: I'm gonna put extra blankets, free, in all your rooms, and there'll be no cover charge.
Hammer: All along the river, those are all levees.
Chico: That's the Jewish neighborhood?
Hammer: Well, we'll pass over that.
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The Cocoanuts opened at the Lyric Theater in New York City on December 8, 1925 and ran for 276 performances starring the four Marx Brothers, Margaret Dumont and Billy De Wolfe with songs by Irving Berlin.
During the day, the Marx Brothers worked on this movie. At night, they were starring in "Animal Crackers" on the stage.
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