Genre:
Comedy
Runtime:
90 - 90 mins
Cast:
6 male(s), 6 female(s), gender-flexible
Synopsis:
A screwball comedy, with a large debt to the Marx Brothers, The Palm Beach Caper revolves around Taco Hoogenwart, a fast-talking con man, who brings his slapdash gang to Palm Beach in the 1930s in hopes of fleecing some of America's moneyed aristocracy. Lady Hortense Mapplethwaite, the imposing American widow of a titled Englishman, sees through Taco's con, but, out of boredom, decides to play along as an "adventure." Hortense gets more than she bargained for, though, when her impressionable daughter falls for the one member of the gang determined to be a serious criminal. In the end, though, nothing is serious in Palm Beach, as love – and money – conquer all.
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