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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Title: Big Business Summary: Ollie and Stanley are two Christmas Tree sales reps who get into one of their usual mutual destruction fights with a homeowner. Directed by: James W. Horne, Leo McCarey Actors: Production Company: Hal Roach Studios Release Date: 20 April 1929 (USA) Aspect Ratio: 1.33 : 1 Stan and Ollie are Christmas tree salesmen in California. Business is slow and a simple argument with one grumpy prospective customer (James Finlayson) escalates from a simple argument into full scale mutual destruction with Stan & Ollie destroying the customers house and garden, whilst Finlayson reduces their car to scrap metal, all under the disbelieving gaze of a police officer and an assembled crowd.
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- Director
- James W. Horne
- Starring
- Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, James Finlayson, Tiny Sandford, Charlie Hall, Retta Palmer, Lyle Tayo
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