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Big Business(Movie, 1929)

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| 19min | Genre: Comedy

Rating: 3.4/5 (with 37 votes)

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, largely about tit-for-tat vandalism between Laurel and Hardy as Christmas tree salesmen and the man who rejects them, was deemed culturally significant and entered into the National Film Registry in 1992. ()

Part of the Laurel and Hardy Collection

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About Big Business

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.

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Production country: United States of America (USA)

Made by: Hal Roach Studios

Original language: No Language (XX)

Spoken languages: No Language (XX)

Translated into 12 languages: German (DE), Greek (EL), English (EN), Spanish (ES), Finnish (FI), French (FR), Hebrew (HE), Italian (IT), Dutch (NL), Polish (PL), Russian (RU), Chinese (Mandarin) (ZH)

Status: Released

Release date US: 04/20/1929

Cast: Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Jimmy Finlayson, Charlie Hall, Lyle Tayo, Retta Palmer, Tiny Sandford

Director: James W. Horne, Leo McCarey

Producer: Hal Roach

Screenwriter: H. M. Walker, Leo McCarey

Film Editor: Richard C. Currier

Director of Photography: George Stevens

Alternative titles in other countries (from previews, ads etc.):

"Dick und Doof - Das grosse Geschäft"

"Dick und Doof - Vom Wahnsinn umzingelt"

"Große Geschäfte"

"Laurel & Hardy - Das große Geschäft"

"Ojo por ojo"

"Joulukuusikauppiaat"

"Grandi affari"

Keywords: short film, black and white, silent film

Color: Black & White (B/W)

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1929 Double Whoopee

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1929 The Hollywood Revue of 1929

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1929 They Go Boom!

1929 Unaccustomed as We Are

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1930 Another Fine Mess

1930 Below Zero

1930 Brats

1930 Laughing Gravy

1930 Night Owls

1930 The Laurel-Hardy Murder Case

1930 The Rogue Song

1931 Beau Hunks

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1931 Come Clean

1931 One Good Turn

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1932 Any Old Port!

1932 County Hospital

1932 Pack Up Your Troubles

1932 The Music Box

1932 Their First Mistake

1932 Towed in a Hole

1933 Busy Bodies

1933 Dirty Work

1933 Me and My Pal

1933 Sons of the Desert

1933 The Devil's Brother

1933 The Midnight Patrol

1934 Babes in Toyland

1934 Going Bye-Bye!

1934 Hollywood Party

1934 Oliver the Eighth

1934 The Live Ghost

1934 Them Thar Hills

1935 Bonnie Scotland

1935 The Fixer Uppers

1935 Thicker Than Water

1935 Tit for Tat

1936 Our Relations

1936 The Bohemian Girl

1937 Way Out West

1938 Block-Heads

1938 Swiss Miss

1939 A Chump at Oxford

1939 The Flying Deuces

1940 Saps at Sea

1941 Great Guns

1942 A-Haunting We Will Go

1943 Air Raid Wardens

1943 Jitterbugs

1943 The Dancing Masters

1944 Nothing But Trouble

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Other movies with this title: Big Business (US, 1924), Big Business (GB, 1930), Big Business (US, 1937), Big Business (US, 1988)

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