In Florida, the owner of the bankrupted Cocoanuts Hotel, Mr. Hammer (Groucho Marx), is trying to sell real estates around the area. He runs the hotel with Jamison (Zeppo Marx) and they have only two guests, the wealthy Mrs. Potter (Margaret Dumont) and her daughter Polly (Mary Eaton), that are paying the bills. The gold digger Harvey Yates (Cyril Ring) plots to marry Polly, but she is in love with the architect Bob Adams (Oscar Shaw) that has a project ready for the area and depends on investors to be succeeded. When the smalltime thieves Harpo (Harpo Marx) and Chico (Chico Marx) arrive at the hotel, Harvey's lover Penelope (Kay Francis) plots a scheme to steal a US 100,000.00 necklace from Mrs. Potter and use Harpo and Chico as scapegoats. But things go wrong and the hotel becomes a mess.
"The Cocoanuts" is a too dated and unfunny comedy by The Marx Brothers. This feature is the debut of The Marx Brothers and only a few gags work (some of them are too long, like the pun with "viaduct" and "why a duck"). Chico Marx playing piano is the best scene in this movie and makes it worth seeing. My vote is four.
Title (Brazil): "No Hotel da Fuzarca" ("In the Hotel of the Mess")
"The Cocoanuts" is a too dated and unfunny comedy by The Marx Brothers. This feature is the debut of The Marx Brothers and only a few gags work (some of them are too long, like the pun with "viaduct" and "why a duck"). Chico Marx playing piano is the best scene in this movie and makes it worth seeing. My vote is four.
Title (Brazil): "No Hotel da Fuzarca" ("In the Hotel of the Mess")