Английская Википедия:Big Business (1929 film)
Шаблон:Short description Шаблон:Use mdy dates Шаблон:Infobox film 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.[1]
Plot
Stan and Ollie play door-to-door Christmas tree salesmen in California. They end up getting into an escalating feud with a grumpy would-be customer. Goaded by their repeated attempts to sell him a Christmas tree, he destroys it with hedge-clippers. Laurel and Hardy retaliate by damaging the man's doorframe with a knife.
Finlayson then goes to work on their clothes, and this escalates, with his home and their car being destroyed in the melee (after Finlayson has run out of Christmas trees to mangle). A police officer steps in to stop the fight (after vases are thrown out and smashed, and one hits him on the foot) and negotiates a peaceful resolution. Stan and Ollie give the homeowner a cigar as a peace offering. However, as the pair make their escape and the homeowner happily lights the gratis smoking-device, it is revealed to be a "trick" cigar rigged with a hidden powder-charge, which promptly explodes in his face.
Cast
- Stan Laurel as Stan
- Oliver Hardy as Ollie
- James Finlayson as the furious Home owner
- Tiny Sandford as the Policeman
- Lyle Tayo as the first Customer
- Charlie Hall as Neighbor
Production
Producer Hal Roach bought a vacant house at 10281 Dunleer Drive, Cheviot Hills, Los Angeles from a studio worker so he could destroy it in the film.[2] According to Roach, a mistake was made regarding the address, and the cast and crew demolished the wrong house. The owners of that home happened to be away on vacation and returned just as filming was being completed. Stan Laurel later said that Roach's story was a fabrication.[3] However, Roach, at age 100, repeated the story as factual in a 1992 televised interview conducted by guest host Jay Leno on The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson.[4]
See also
References
External links
- Big Business essay by Randy Skretvedt at National Film Registry [1]
- Big Business essay by Daniel Eagan in America's Film Legacy: The Authoritative Guide to the Landmark Movies in the National Film Registry, A&C Black, 2010 Шаблон:ISBN, pages 158-159 [2]
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- ↑ "Jay Leno chats to 100 year old Laurel & Hardy Producer Hal RoachШаблон:Emdash1992", video, full interview of Hal Roach by guest host Jay Leno on The Tonight Show With Johnny Carson, originally aired January 28, 1992; uploaded by Laurel and Hardy Forum, June 24, 1914 on YouTube, San Bruno, California. Retrieved November 22, 2021.
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