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""Hammer, the stogey-chewing, mustachioed entrepreneur of the Hotel de Cocoanut, moonlights as an auctioneering real estate speculator during the Florida Land Boom of the Twenties. Though his 600-room establishment is filled with an assortment of guests, only one, the haughtily stuffed Mrs. Potter, is paying any rent. Meanwhile, her lovely daughter Polly is paying court to hotel clerk Bob Shaw, whose own ambitions towards architectural fame and love's reward are chronicled in the Irving Berlin tune, When my dreams come true. Hammer's financial throes abound, precipitating ever more ingenious and [wacky] plots to salvage his position, the most ardently pursued of which is the wooing of the wealthy Mrs. Potter. The rascal even exhorts his employees to labor gratis in order to free themselves from 'wage slavery.' Guests Chico and Harpo, unable to pay their bill, cascade through the hotel, mischievously bent upon larcenous chicanery, stealing silverware, evading Hammer, fumbling uproariously with stock hotel props such as bellboys, luggage, roomkeys, and mailbins. Among Hammer's other guests are Harvey Yates and Penelope, two somewhat more dedicated miscreants who have designs on Mrs. Potter's lucre, plotting to purloin her precious necklace. She remains in the dark as to their devilish deviousness, duped to the point of promoting a match between the lovely Polly and Harvey, whom she regards as 'one of the Boston Yates.' The stolen necklace is discovered by Harpo, who cleverly produces it from the stump of a tree on the lot that Shaw buys at the Hammer's auction. Bob is tossed into jail, later to be freed by Chico and Harpo, while the precious Polly has so infatuated Yates that he is tricked into revealing the true tale of the theft. The jig finally up, the engagement party continues with only the substitution of Shaw as the prospective groom needed to change pretty Polly's perilous predicament to one of anticipated paradise"--AFI catalog, 1921-1930."@en
"Early Marx Brothers comedy with Groucho as a hotel owner, Chico and Harpo as con men and Margaret Dumont as a wealthy matron."@en
""During the Florida land boom, the Marx brothers run a hotel, auction off some land, thwart a jewel robbery, and generally act like themselves"--from www.imdb.com."@en
"Marx Brothers comedy with Groucho as a hotel owner out to fleece everyone, Chico and Harpo as resort hotel con men, and Margaret Dumont as a wealthy matron. This is the Marx Brother's first film, which introduced the brothers' vaudeville humor to world."
"Marx Brothers comedy with Groucho as a hotel owner out to fleece everyone, Chico and Harpo as resort hotel con men, and Margaret Dumont as a wealthy matron."@en
"Classic Marx Brothers comedy with Groucho as a hotel owner, Chico and Harpo as con men and Margaret Dumont as a wealthy matron. Includes music by Irving Berlin."@en
"Screwball comedy. At a resort hotel, the Marx Brothers rescue the desk clerk falsely accused of jewel theft."
"De eigenaar van hotel "De Cocoanut" beledigt en bedriegt zowel zijn personeel als zijn gasten."
"In Florida property values are booming. Groucho is the owner-manager of a 600 room hotel devoid of guests. In a clumsily staged framework of romance, plot and musical numbers the Brothers made their screen debut. Margaret Dumont is impervious to Groucho's insults. Groucho uses and misuses language. He is cheated by Chico's bottomless stupidity. Harpo is beyond argument. For just about the only time Harpo catches up with his female prey. Unusually all four Marxes are together for a burlesque of Carmen. This is Marx madness at its most energetic."@en
"Classic Marx Brothers comedy with Groucho as a hotel owner, Chico and Harpo as con men and Margaret Dumont as a wealthy matron."@en
"Classic Marx Brothers comedy with Groucho as a hotel owner, Chico and Harpo as con men and Margaret Dumont as a wealthy matron."
"Classic Marx Brothers comedy with Groucho as a hotel owner, Chico and Harpo as con men and the inestimable Margaret Dumont as a wealthy matron."@en
"Based on their Broadway hit. The film--one of the first full talkies--takes place in a hotel with owner Groucho out to grab every dollar."