Goin' Coconuts

Goin' Coconuts is a 1978 American musical adventure comedy film directed by Howard Morris and starring Donny and Marie Osmond.

The feature film tells a tale of Donny and Marie becoming embroiled in a dispute between two criminal gangs over a necklace while they visit Hawaii to perform in a concert.

After performing in a concert, Donny and Marie Osmond head for the airport to catch a flight to Hawaii.

As Donny and Marie wait for Charlie to finish his phone call, an attractive blond woman named Tricia approaches them.

Donny and Marie remain completely unaware of Mickey, J.L., and Webster and the car chase and crashes taking place behind their limousine.

[3] Kruse and his henchman Ito visit Webster at the hospital, finding him bandaged from head to toe and unable to speak.

As Donny leaves the hotel suite, Kruse and Ito check into the room next door and Wong, Mickey, and J.L.

Alone in her suite, Marie hears noises and notices Kruse and Ito peeking through her windows, and someone steals her necklace.

Outside, Donny tells Sid that he stole the necklace because he thinks that Marie is merely imagining that gangsters are after it and that it is distracting her during her performances.

Afraid that he will be revealed as the thief, Donny talks Al, the security guard, into secretly returning the necklace.

Kruse hears from a contact he has at the police laboratory about the fingerprints, and Wong says that the theft was merely a ruse by Donny and Marie to throw him off the trail of the necklace.

At the show, Alecki brings extra police to protect Donny and Marie and watch for criminal activity.

While performing, Donny and Marie see Mickey, J.L., and Ito, all dressed as policemen, on both sides of the stage, and they flash their guns.

Sid notices Ito wearing sandals, realizes that he is not a real police officer, and notifies Alecki, who arrests all three of them after the show.

Marie notices that the necklace matches part of the map and points to a spot in the ocean off Hawaii.

[3] The next day, Tricia explains to Donny and Marie that she is with the United States Navy, and has been looking for the necklace and the submarine for over a year.

[3] Filming of Goin' Coconuts took place on Oahu in Hawaii from March 31 to May 1978 during the annual production hiatus for the Osmonds' variety television series Donny & Marie.

[4] Goin' Coconuts was Ted Cassidy's final film appearance before his death in January 1979, although he continued to amass a number of posthumous animation-voiceover credits.

[8] The album also included "May Tomorrow Be a Perfect Day", which the Osmonds sang to close each episode of their TV series.