Little Giant

Feb 22, 1946

1h 30m

★ 5.1

They're Selling Vacuum Cleaners!

Overview

Lou Costello plays a country bumpkin vacuum-cleaner salesman, working for the company run by the crooked Bud Abbott. To try to keep him under his thumb, Abbott convinces Costello that he's a crackerjack salesman. This comedy is somewhat like "The Time of Their Lives," in that Abbott and Costello don't have much screen time together and there are very few vaudeville bits woven into the plot.

Genres

Comedy

Production Companies

Universal Pictures

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Cast

Eddie L. Morrison / T.S. Chandler

Bud Abbott

Benny Miller

Lou Costello

Hazel Temple Morrison

Jacqueline deWit

Miss Ruby Burke

Brenda Joyce

Clarence Goodring

George Cleveland

Martha Hill

Elena Verdugo

Ma Miller

Mary Gordon

P.S. Van Loon

Pierre Watkin

The conductor

Donald MacBride

Gus Anderson (salesman)

Victor Kilian

O'Brien (salesman)

George Chandler

Salesman

Joe Kirk

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