
The Cocoanuts(1929)
During the Florida land boom, the Marx Brothers run a hotel, auction off some land and thwart a jewel robbery.


“The maddest comics of them all!”
The well-known explorer and hunter Captain Spaulding has just returned from Africa, and is being welcomed home with a lavish party at the estate of influential society matron Mrs. Rittenhouse when a valuable painting goes missing. The intrepid Captain Spaulding attempts to solve the crime with the help of his silly secretary Horatio Jamison, while sparring with the anarchic Signor Emanuel Ravelli and his nutty sidekick The Professor.

Groucho Marx
Captain Jeffrey T. Spaulding

Harpo Marx
The Professor

Chico Marx
Signor Emanuel Ravelli

Zeppo Marx
Horatio Jamison

Lillian Roth
Arabella Rittenhouse

Margaret Dumont
Mrs. Rittenhouse

Louis Sorin
Roscoe Chandler

Hal Thompson
John Parker

Margaret Irving
Mrs. Whitehead

Kathryn Reece
Grace Carpenter
Animal Crackers is a comedy, music film released in 1930 exploring themes of musical, based on play or musical, whodunit, black and white, pre-code. Directed by Victor Heerman, it stars Groucho Marx, Harpo Marx, Chico Marx. The well-known explorer and hunter Captain Spaulding has just returned from Africa, and is being welcomed home with a lavish party at the estate of influential society matron Mrs. Rittenhouse when a valuable painting goes missing. The intrepid Captain Spaulding attempts to solve the crime with the help of his silly secretary Horatio Jamison, while sparring with the anarchic Signor Emanuel Ravelli and his nutty sidekick The Professor.
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