THE BIG STORE

'''The Big Store''' is a 1941 MGM Marx Brothers comedy film in which Groucho, Chico and Harpo work to save the Phelps department store. Groucho plays the detective/bodyguard Wolf J. Flywheel.
It was advertised as their last ever film; however, they would return to the screen in ''A Night in Casablanca'' and ''Love Happy''.
''The Big Store'' co-starred Marx Brothers' foil Margaret Dumont as well as Tony Martin and Virginia Grey. Dumont retired after this film. The "heavy" was Mr. Grover, played by Douglass Dumbrille, the same actor who was the "heavy" in ''A Day at the Races''.
As is typical for MGM films, the movie contains production numbers, such as "Sing While You Sell," performed by Groucho, and "Tenement Symphony" sung by Tony Martin.
The film has two extended scenes. One of them takes place in the store's bed department, which has all kinds of novel beds that come out of the walls. An Italian family comes in with 12 children, six of whom get lost in a set of bunk beds. Three more families, one has a lot of blond children, one is comprised of American Indian children, and the third with Asian children, arrive, and soon all is chaos.
The second lengthy scene takes place near the end of the film. Groucho, Chico and Harpo escape their pursuers during a madcap chase through the entire store, using the elevator, a staircase, chandeliers, roller skates, and a bicycle.
Tagline: "Where everything is a good buy. Goodbye!"

Contents

Musical numbers

Trivia

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Musical numbers

★ "Tenement Symphony"- Tommy

★ "Sing While You Sell"- Groucho & the Cast

★ "If It's You"- Tommy

★ "Mama Yo Quiero"- Chico and Harpo (piano)

★ "Mozart's Sonata in C major" - Harpo (Harp)

★ "Beethoven's Minuet" - Harpo (Harp/Cello/Violin)

Trivia

★ There is one gag which breaks the fourth wall, which is in the "Sing While You Sell" sequence: While Groucho is showing a dress, he says "This is a bright red dress but Technicolor is ''so'' expensive."

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