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| Paramount Pictures | Release Date: August 3, 1929 |
Starring:
Chico Marx, Cyril Ring, Groucho Marx, Harpo Marx, Kay Francis, Margaret Dumont, Mary Eaton, Oscar Shaw, The Marx Brothers, Zeppo Marx
Summary:
During the Florida land boom, The Marx Brothers run a hotel, auction off some land, thwart a jewel robbery, and generally act like themselves.
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Only about half of 1929's The Cocoanuts, an early sound-era comedy, was entrusted to the Marx brothers' vaudevillian antics; the rest was left to drippy Irving Berlin songs, kick-lines of bathing beauties, and a half-baked subplot about a stolen necklace. Yet the good scenes establish the Marx dynamic to hilarious effect.
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That's all it has --comedy-- but that's enough. [29 May 1929, p.14]
The material hasn't been paced for the screen; there are dead spots (without even background music), but there are also a lot of funny verbal routines and a musical burlesque of Carmen, and Harpo, as a fiendish pickpocket, is much faster (and less aesthetic and self-conscious and innocent) than in the Brothers' later comedies.
Mar 4, 2021
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