The Cocoanuts1929 · Film · 93 minDirected by Robert Florey, Joseph SantleyComedyMusicDuring the Florida land boom, the Marx Brothers run a hotel, auction off some land and thwart a jewel robbery.2 neutralfrom 2 commenters♥ Like＋ Watch laterIMDbTMDBTrendsWhere to watchNo streaming data for this title.
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In the US, a random/personal selection of major works that will be public domain are:
* Ernest Hemingway's novel "A Farewell to Arms"
* Ludwig Wittgenstein's essay "Some Remarks on Logical Form"
* The first part of the 14th edition of Encyclopædia Britannica
* William Faulkner's novel "The Sound and the Fury"
* René Magritte's painting "The Treachery of Images"
* Wassily Kandinsky's painting "Upward"
* "Un chien Andalou", directed by Luis Bunuel and cowritten by Salvador Dali
* "The Cocoanuts", the first film of the Marx Brothers
* the first "Silly Symphony" cartoons, including "The Skeleton Dance".
Not a bad year at all!
The Florida land boom was in the 1920s. The Marx Brothers made a comedy about it: The Cocoanuts (1929), their first full-length film.