The Cocoanuts (1929)

Hotel workers: We haven't been paid in two weeks and we want our wages! Groucho: Wages? Do you want to be wage slaves, answer me that. Hotel workers: No. Groucho: No, of course not. Well, what makes wage slaves? Wages!

laird

That sound you hear in the distance is all the real cinephiles hooting and hollering at a couple of director Robert Florey's trademark striking visual compositions in the otherwise horrible opening dance sequence. Deserves its reputation as a barely-releasable filmed…

Will Sloan

The transition from silent to sound at the dawn of the talkie was not a smooth one, as clearly evident in The Cocoanuts, the first of several collaborations between the Marx brothers at Paramount. This is very much a vaudeville show put to film, a warm up for later works…

James

My lovely wife bought me a set of the first 5 Marx Brothers movies even though she doesn't like them. Isn't she lovely? This is the one where Groucho runs a hotel in Florida and tries to sell some land. Kay Francis is a jewel thief. As I've said before, you don't…

RetroHound

really really good when harpo is playing the harp or biting random objects. really really bad when literally anything else is happening

madison

The Coconuts is kind of a dry run for the Marx Brothers’ later films. All the basic elements are in place. Groucho is full of attitude and spins out well crafted one liners, Harpo is chaotic until he sits down behind his harp, Chico does some womanizing and plays a tune on…

Chris Hughes

Interesting thing about The Cocoanuts - it was the Marx brother's first film with Paramount, based on their successful stage show at the time, and the Brothers were so upset when they saw the final cut of the film that they apparently tried to buy back the negatives and…

Jay D 's Watching

Harpo Marx is one of my five favorite things about movies.

Nitrate_Diet

These guys are funny! Hope a film somewhere down the line can truly capture it.

Justin Decloux