The Big Store (1941)

Directed by

Charles Reisner

Genre

comedy film

Country

United States

Runtime

1h 20m

Rated

NR

Rating

6.2 of 10 from 75 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

The Marx Brothers play a detective, a dummy, and a piano player who help a young woman save her family's department store from a crooked manager. They cause chaos and confusion while trying to expose the villain's schemes.

fast-pacedzanyslapsticklightheartedplayfulenergeticwhimsicalcomedic

What happens

The Big Store is a 1941 American comedy film directed by Charles Reisner and starring the Marx Brothers (Groucho, Harpo and Chico) that takes place in a large department store. Groucho appears as private detective Wolf J. Flywheel (a character name originating from the Marx-Perrin radio show Flywheel, Shyster, and Flywheel in the early 1930s). The Big Store was the last of the five films that the Marx Bros. made under contract to Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. The Marxes had decided to retire as a team and The Big Store was advertised as their farewell film. However, they would return to the screen in A Night in Casablanca (1946) and Love Happy (1949). The film also features singer Tony Martin (who received co-billing with the Marxes) and Virginia Grey as the love interests and longtime Marx Brothers foil Margaret Dumont in her seventh and final film with the Marxes. The villain is portrayed by Douglass Dumbrille, who had played a similar role in A Day at the Races (1937). (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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