The Big Store

Name: The Big Store
Director: Charles Reisner
Released: 1941-06-20T00:00:00+00:00
Rating: 6.3

1941 · TMDB 6.3

Directed by Charles Reisner

A detective is hired to protect the life of a singer, who has recently inherited a department store, from the store's crooked manager.

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The Marx Brothers' final MGM outing, a department store caper where Groucho regularly turns to the camera to share a wink or a quip, cementing the vaudevillian tradition of direct address.

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Groucho Marx Chico Marx Harpo Marx Tony Martin Virginia Grey Margaret Dumont Douglass Dumbrille William Tannen Marion Martin Virginia O'Brien Henry Armetta Anna Demetrio

Director · Charles Reisner Producer · Louis K. Sidney Writer · Sid Kuller Writer · Hal Fimberg Writer · Ray Golden Writer · Nat Perrin Cinematography · Charles Lawton Jr. Editor · Conrad A. Nervig

Runtime: 83 min
Released: 1941-06-20
Studio: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Country: United States of America
Language: English
TMDB score: 6.3

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The Marx Brothers' final MGM outing, a department store caper where Groucho regularly turns to the camera to share a wink or a quip, cementing the vaudevillian tradition of direct address.