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.

Paramount's All Talking-Singing Musical Comedy Hit! (taglines)

Hammer

 * 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

 * 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!

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 * 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

 * Paramount's All Talking-Singing Musical Comedy Hit!

Cast

 * 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