Groucho Marx, Douglass Dumbrille, Margaret Dumont, Virginia Grey, Tony Martin, Chico Marx, and Harpo Marx in The Big Store (1941)

The Big Store

Movie1941• Approved• 1h 23m
ComedyFamilyMusicalRomance
⭐ 6.5 / 10(5,779)

A detective is hired to protect the life of a singer who has recently inherited a department store, from the store's crooked manager.

Rated
Approved
Runtime
1h 23m
Released
1941
Country
United States

Details

Release year: 1941

Storyline

A detective is hired to protect the life of a singer who has recently inherited a department store, from the store's crooked manager.

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Did you know

• British Prime Minister Winston Churchill was watching a private screening of this film when he received news that Nazi second-in-command Rudolf Hess had flown to Britain on an unauthorized mission to end the conflict between Britain and Germany during World War II. Churchill decided that the news was so unimportant he ignored it, went back into his screening room and watched the rest of the movie. In his 1972 autobiography "An Evening with Groucho", Groucho Marx tells this anecdote but the movie he refers to is Monkey Business (1931), and still another source claims it was Go West (1940).

• Seventh and final film teaming of The Marx Brothers with Margaret Dumont.

• This is the only The Marx Brothers film to feature Chico Marx and Harpo Marx performing a piano duet.

User reviews

⭐ 7/10

Not great, but has its moments

šŸ‘ 22 Ā· 12/21/2001
⭐ 6/10

The Big Store (1941) **

šŸ‘ 16 Ā· 8/1/2004
⭐ 8/10

"Flywheel's in Command."

šŸ‘ 16 Ā· 1/8/2006

Technical specs

Sound mix
Mono
Aspect ratio
1.37 : 1
Color
Black and White
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