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20 June 1941 (USA)
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Howl . . . And Farewell ! Their Last Picture . . . And Their Best ! more
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A detective is hired to protect the life of a singer, who has recently inherited a department store, from the store's crooked manager. full summary | add synopsis
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Cinema Retro Exclusive Interview With Bill Marx, Son Of Harpo Marx
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(From CinemaRetro. 19 November 2009, 4:34 PM, PST)
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The Big Store (1941) **
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Cast
(Cast overview, first billed only)| Groucho Marx | ... | Wolf J. Flywheel | |
| Chico Marx | ... | Ravelli | |
| Harpo Marx | ... | Wacky | |
| Tony Martin | ... | Tommy Rogers | |
| Virginia Grey | ... | Joan Sutton | |
| Margaret Dumont | ... | Martha Phelps | |
| Douglass Dumbrille | ... | Mr. Grover | |
| William Tannen | ... | Fred 'Chris' Sutton | |
| Marion Martin | ... | Peggy Arden | |
| Virginia O'Brien | ... | Kitty | |
| Henry Armetta | ... | Guiseppi | |
| Anna Demetrio | ... | Maria | |
| Paul Stanton | ... | Arthur Hastings | |
| Russell Hicks | ... | George Hastings | |
| Bradley Page | ... | Duke |
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83 min
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Mono (Western Electric Sound System)
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The Marx Brothers announced that this would be their last film, but they actually went on to make two more.
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Revealing mistakes: When the brothers are barricading themselves in the electrical supply room, as the light bulbs are falling (and sounding like gunshots), the close-up clearly shows a white string pulling the rear of the shelf up and some of the mechanism lever is visibly moving at the top-right of the shelf.
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Mr. Grover:
If Ms. Phelps were not my fiancée, I would turn in my resignation and walk out of this store for good!
Martha Phelps: Oh no, no...
Wolf J. Flywheel: Fiancée?
Martha Phelps: Yes.
Wolf J. Flywheel: You mean a woman of your culture and money and beauty and money and wealth and money would, would marry that imposter?
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Martha Phelps: Oh no, no...
Wolf J. Flywheel: Fiancée?
Martha Phelps: Yes.
Wolf J. Flywheel: You mean a woman of your culture and money and beauty and money and wealth and money would, would marry that imposter?
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Referenced in Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest (2006)
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If It's You
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This latter Marx Bros. comedy still contains some vintage moments between Groucho and his longtime foil Margaret Dumont, with good comic dialogue written for Groucho once again. The scene where she visits his office to hire him as a detective, as he and Harpo pull off a ruse by making it appear that Groucho's not a starving nobody but a first-class private eye, is as good as anything I've seen in their other pictures.
Things get bogged down later with musical numbers (I mean, what else is new?), but I was impressed by many of the sets in the grand department store.
Some good, some not-so-good.