28.4.12

the cocoanuts (1929)

"Three years ago I came to Florida without a nickel in my pocket. Now I've got a nickel in my pocket."
Hammer (Groucho Marx) runs a hotel in Florida, badly. Things can only get worse when Harpo and Chico turn up and a lady's diamond necklace goes missing. A script that betrays its stage origins, throwing in some chorus line work and some songs between the Marx Brothers quickfire patter, in their first outing on the big screen.
Whilst the musical interludes offer nothing much, it's the Marx Brothers that you come for and they offer up some tried and tested routines that never fail to entertain.

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