Big Business (1929 film)

Big Business (1929 film)

Infobox Film
name = Big Business


caption = Theatrical poster for "Big Business" (1929)
director = James W. Horne
Leo McCarey
producer = Hal Roach
writer = H.M. Walker (titles)
starring = Stan Laurel
Oliver Hardy
Jimmy Finlayson
Charlie Hall
Retta Palmer
Tiny Sandford
Lyle Tayo
music =
cinematography =
editing = Richard C. Currier (as Richard Currier)
distributor = Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
released = April 20, 1929
runtime = 19 min.
language = Silent film
English (Original intertitles)
country - USA
budget =
preceded_by = "That's My Wife"
followed_by = "Unaccustomed As We Are"
imdb_id = 0019688
amg_id = 1:84959

"Big Business" is a 1929 silent Laurel and Hardy comedy short subject directed by James W. Horne and supervised by Leo McCarey from a McCarey (uncredited) and H. M. Walker script. The film was deemed culturally significant and entered into the United States National Film Registry in 1992.

Plot

Stan and Ollie play door-to-door Christmas tree salesmen in California. They end up getting into an escalating feud with grumpy would-be customer James Finlayson, with his home and their car being destroyed in the melee.

Trivia

* Hal Roach bought a house from a studio worker which would be destroyed in the film. According to Roach, the cast and crew destroyed the house next door instead by accident during filming, but Stan Laurel said this was a fabrication.
* It is the second highest rated Laurel and Hardy film on the Internet Movie Database. Number one is "The Music Box".
* Ollie cries as well as Stan.

See also

* 1929 in film
* Laurel and Hardy films

External links

*imdb title|id=0019688|title=Big Business


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