The Cocoanuts
The Cocoanuts is a 1929 film starring the Marx Brothers about four men who run a hotel, auction off some land, thwart a jewel robbery during the Florida land boom.
- Directed by Robert Florey. Written by Morrie Ryskind based on the musical.
Paramount's All Talking-Singing Musical Comedy Hit! (taglines)
Hammer
[edit]- Three years ago I came to Florida without a nickel in my pocket. Now I've got a nickel in my pocket.
- [to Chico] Now this is our cemetery. I've got a list of a hundred people just dying to get in. But I like you and I'm going to shove you in ahead of all of them. I'm going to get you a steady position. And if I can arrange it, it'll be horizontal.
- [Watching Harpo wobble away from the banquet table] Well, I got rid of one. And one like that is worth three ordinary ones!
Dialogue
[edit]- Chico: We no got one cent.
- Hammer: How you gonna pay for your room?
- Chico: That's your lookout!
- Hammer: Oh, I see! You're just an idle roomer!
- Hammer: Do you know what an auction is?
- Chico: Sure. I come here from Italy on the Atlantic Auction!
- Hammer: Now when the auction starts, I want you to mingle with the guests. Don't pick their pockets, just mingle with them.
- Chico: I find time for both.
- Hammer: Well, maybe we can cut out the auction!
- Hammer: All along the river, those are all levees.
- Chico: That's the Jewish neighborhood?
- Hammer: Well, we'll Passover that....You're a peach, boy. Now, here is a little peninsula, and, eh, here is a viaduct leading over to the mainland.
- Chico: Why a duck?
- Hammer: I'm alright, how are you? I say, here is a little peninsula, and here is a viaduct leading over to the mainland.
- Chico: Alright, why a duck?
- Hammer: [pause] I'm not playing "Ask Me Another," I say that's a viaduct.
- Chico: Alright! Why a duck? Why that...why a duck? Why a no chicken?
- Hammer: Well, I don't know why a no chicken; I'm a stranger here myself. All I know is that it's a viaduct. You try to cross over there a chicken and you'll find out why a duck.
- Hammer: Hey, do you know your suitcase is empty?
- Chico: Don't worry, we fill it up before we leave.
- Mrs. Potter: I don't think you'd love me if I were poor.
- Hammer: I might, but I'd keep my mouth shut.
- Hammer: Are you sure your husband is dead?
- Mrs. Potter: Why....yes.
- Hammer: There seems to be a slight trace of uncertainty in that "yes". A "yes" like that was once responsible for me jumping out of a window. And I'm not the jumper I used to be.
- Bob Adams: Oh Mr. Hammer, there's a man outside wants to see you with a black mustache.
- Hammer: Tell him I've got one.
- Hammer: And now, friends, in view of the fact that Miss Potter's engagement is being celebrated here tonight, so to speak, I think a few words from her mother would be revolting! I now take great pleasure in presenting to you the well-preserved and partially pickled, Mrs. Potter.
- Mrs. Potter: My good, good friends. If I could only tell you how rosy-hued everything seems to me tonight. As I look into your faces, they're all lit with gay laughter. The whole world and everything in it is bathed in a soft, glowing luminous haze...
- Hammer: The old gal is stewed to the eyebrows.
Taglines
[edit]- Paramount's All Talking-Singing Musical Comedy Hit!
Cast
[edit]- Groucho Marx — Mr. Hammer
- Harpo Marx — Harpo
- Chico Marx — Chico
- Zeppo Marx — Jamison
- Mary Eaton — Polly Potter
- Oscar Shaw — Robert 'Bob' Adams
- Margaret Dumont — Mrs. Potter
- Kay Francis — Penelope
- Cyril Ring — Harvey Yates
- Basil Ruysdael — Detective Hennessey
External links
[edit]
- The Cocoanuts quotes at the Internet Movie Database