The Cocoanuts 1929 123movies

Watch: The Cocoanuts 1929 123movies, Full Movie Online – Mr. Hammer runs a bankrupt Florida hotel. He’ll try anything to make money, even make love to rich Mrs. Potter. But his main scheme, selling real estate, is in danger of sabotage from zanies Chico and Harpo, who also reduce the schemes of a pair of jewel thieves to chaos. A subplot involves the star-crossed love of Polly Potter and architect Bob Adams..
Plot: During the Florida land boom, the Marx Brothers run a hotel, auction off some land and thwart a jewel robbery.
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	6.8/10 Votes: 7,768
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	69/100 | MetaCritic
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Reviews:

Technically crude, but charming
“The Cocoanuts” was released in 1929, only two years after sound was introduced to the movies. Not surprisingly, it’s a little crude technically, but I find that to be part of its charm. Like most Marx Brothers films, the plot isn’t particularly important. It plays second-fiddle to their hilarious hi-jinks, and there are plenty of them to savor. The musical numbers can be a bit tedious, but they’re worth sitting through while we wait for Groucho, Harpo, and Chico to take center stage. Oh, yeah, Zeppo’s in this one, too, but who really expects much from him?

One of the delights of “The Cocoanuts” is the presence of a pre-stardom Kay Francis who would soon sign with Warner Bros. and become one of their highest paid stars. Sadly, her reign as the queen of Warners was short-lived, and she is rather obscure today, but she was not only a great actress, but an absolute babe! Having seen her in this, I now look forward to seeing more of her films.

Brian W. Fairbanks

On Your Marx
The creative talents of George S. Kaufman, Irving Berlin, and the Brothers Marx went into the production of the Broadway musical The Cocoanuts which ran for 216 shows in the 1925-1926 season. Of the talent involved it was the Marx Brothers who came out the winners.

George S. Kaufman was one of the great wits of the last century, but so were the Marx Brothers. They ad-libbed and eliminated much of Kaufman’s well turned prose and things were pretty tense between him and the brothers on Broadway. He also did not like a certain song that Berlin wanted to use in The Cocoanuts and Berlin took it from the show after Kaufman ragged on him. The song was Always. The Cocoanuts was the first book musical that Irving Berlin ever wrote, he did mostly reviews before The Cocoanuts. It also is the only one without a single hit song from it.

But as a Marx Brothers comedy it made the Brothers reputations. The plot such as it is concerns the boom in Florida real estate in which a lot of people got wealthy and a lot lost their shirts, though not quite in the way Basil Ruysdael does when Harpo and Chico take it off his back while he’s trying to frisk them in his duties as the house detective.

The Cocoanuts was shot at the Paramount Astoria studio in Queens and used a lot of Broadway performers in the roles. Besides the Brothers, only Margaret Dumont and Basil Ruysdael came over from the Broadway cast. But Oscar Shaw and Mary Eaton had well established reputations on Broadway. Kay Francis is in the cast as the bad girl and she certainly went on to a substantial Hollywood career.

The main thing The Cocoanuts has going for it besides the Marx Brothers is the fact it is a filmed record of a Twenties era Broadway musical. Paramount made very few concessions in adapting The Cocoanuts to the screen. What we see is filmed play. Historic, but I fear not as entertaining as the later work of the Marx Brothers.

Other Information:

Original Language en
Runtime 1 hr 36 min (96 min), 2 hr 20 min (140 min) (preview) (USA), 1 hr 29 min (89 min) (DVD) (Spain)
Budget 500000
Revenue 1800000
Status Released
Rated Passed
Genre Adventure, Comedy, Musical
Director Robert Florey, Joseph Santley
Writer George S. Kaufman, Morrie Ryskind
Actors Groucho Marx, Harpo Marx, Chico Marx
Country United States
Awards 2 nominations
Production Company N/A
Website N/A

Technical Information:

Sound Mix Mono (Western Electric System)
Aspect Ratio 1.20 : 1 (sound on film version)
Camera N/A
Laboratory Paramount Studio Laboratory, USA
Film Length 2,650 m
Negative Format 35 mm
Cinematographic Process Spherical
Printed Film Format 35 mm