Big Business (1929 film)

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Big Business
Theatrical poster for Big Business (1929)
Directed by	James W. Horne Leo McCarey
Produced by	Hal Roach
Written by	H.M. Walker (titles)
Starring	Stan Laurel Oliver Hardy Jimmy Finlayson Charlie Hall Retta Palmer Tiny Sandford Lyle Tayo
Editing by	Richard C. Currier (as Richard Currier)
Distributed by	Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Release date(s)	April 20, 1929
Running time	19 min.
Country	United States
Language	Silent film English (Original intertitles)
Preceded by	That's My Wife
Followed by	Unaccustomed As We Are

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.

Contents 1 Plot 2 Production 3 See also 4 External links

[edit] 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.

[edit] Production

Producer Hal Roach bought a house from a studio worker so he could destroy it in the film. According to Roach, the cast and crew demolished the house next door instead by accident during filming, but Stan Laurel said this was a fabrication.

[edit] See also

• Laurel and Hardy films

[edit] External links

• Big Business at the Internet Movie Database
• Big Business at Allmovie

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