1929 · paramount · marx-brothers · berlin
The Cocoanuts
Directed by Robert Florey, Joseph Santley1h 33m1929
During the Florida land boom, the Marx Brothers run a hotel, auction off some land and thwart a jewel robbery.
Our read: The Cocoanuts (1929) reads as a cosy, kinetic, inventive paramount · marx-brothers · berlin entry — gentle in intensity, intimate in scope, measured in temperature, redemptive in outlook.
Cosy, kinetic, gentle paramount / marx-brothers, inventive in texture. Redemptive, intimate, measured.
- cosy
- brisk
- gentle
- intimate
- funny
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