The Big Store (1941) | |
| Director(s) | Charles Reisner |
| Producer(s) | Louis K. Sidney |
| Top Genres | Comedy, Musical |
| Top Topics | Detectives |
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The Big Store (1941) was a Comedy - Musical Film directed by Charles Reisner and produced by Louis K. Sidney.
SYNOPSIS
Groucho, Harpo, and Chico turn a big department store upside down as New York detectives trying to foil the hostile takeover of a department store and prevent a murder. Pretty late in the day for the Marxes, this was the final film in which Groucho, Harpo, and Chico appeared together - but there's still lots of fun watching the Brothers turn the emporium into their own private playground.
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Wolf J. Flywheel:
[In "Sing While You Sell" number] Come on, Wacky: Nagasaki!
Ravelli: I take-a your picture. Hey! Look at me and laugh.
Wolf J. Flywheel: I've been doing that for 20 years.
Mr. Grover: If Ms. Phelps were not my fiancée, I would turn in my resignation and walk out of this store for good!
Martha Phelps: Oh no, no...
Wolf J. Flywheel: Fiancée?
Martha Phelps: Yes.
Wolf J. Flywheel: You mean a woman of your culture and money and beauty and money and wealth and money would, would marry that imposter?
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Ravelli: I take-a your picture. Hey! Look at me and laugh.
Wolf J. Flywheel: I've been doing that for 20 years.
Mr. Grover: If Ms. Phelps were not my fiancée, I would turn in my resignation and walk out of this store for good!
Martha Phelps: Oh no, no...
Wolf J. Flywheel: Fiancée?
Martha Phelps: Yes.
Wolf J. Flywheel: You mean a woman of your culture and money and beauty and money and wealth and money would, would marry that imposter?
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Facts about
"The Big Store" is American con artists' jargon for a facility used by con artists in a 'Big Con', that is, one that requires multiple days to pull off, with a realistic setting, characters, etc, essentially a full-on drama put on for the benefit of the mark. The Big Store itself exists to be dressed up as, e.g., a brokerage or gambling house, depending on the con. A well-managed Big Store can go from an empty set of rooms to a bustling office with activity in all directions--and back again--in a matter of a few hours. Not seen very much these days, the Big Store had its golden age en the 30s and 40s, around about the time this movie was made. A well-known film example of a "Big Store" con is the one played on Robert Shaw by Robert Redford and Paul Newman in The Sting.
British Prime Minister Winston Churchill was watching a private screening of "The Big Store" when he received news that Nazi second-in-command Rudolf Hess had flown to Britain on an unauthorized mission to end the conflict between Britain and Germany during World War II. Churchill decided that the news was so unimportant he ignored it, went back into his screening room and watched the rest of the movie. (in "An evening with groucho" (1972) groucho tells this anecdote but the movie he refers to is "Monkey Business").
Final film of former silent screen star Enid Bennett, who has an unbilled bit part as a store clerk.
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British Prime Minister Winston Churchill was watching a private screening of "The Big Store" when he received news that Nazi second-in-command Rudolf Hess had flown to Britain on an unauthorized mission to end the conflict between Britain and Germany during World War II. Churchill decided that the news was so unimportant he ignored it, went back into his screening room and watched the rest of the movie. (in "An evening with groucho" (1972) groucho tells this anecdote but the movie he refers to is "Monkey Business").
Final film of former silent screen star Enid Bennett, who has an unbilled bit part as a store clerk.
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