Little Giant

Little Giant (1946)

They're Selling Vacuum Cleaners!

Lou Costello plays a country bumpkin vacuum-cleaner salesman, working for the company run by the crooked Bud Abbott. To try to keep him under his thumb, Abbott convinces Costello that he's a crackerjack salesman. This comedy is somewhat like "The Time of Their Lives," in that Abbott and Costello don't have much screen time together and there are very few vaudeville bits woven into the plot.

Date of release
1946-02-22
TMDB
5.3 / 10 (23)
Runtime
1h 30m
Genres
Comedy
Director
William A. Seiter

Casting

Interesting facts

Little Giant is a 1946 American comedy film directed by William A. Seiter and starring the comedy team of Abbott and Costello alongside Brenda Joyce and Jacqueline deWit. It was produced and distributed by Universal Pictures. The film was released in the United Kingdom with the alternative title On the Carpet.

Production

Filming took place between November 1 through December 17, 1945. Director, William A. Seiter was paid $100,000 and the two leads $110,000.

In this film, and the next Abbott and Costello film, The Time of Their Lives (1946), the comedians play separate characters instead of their usual partnership. This was due to falling box-office receipts for the team's releases during 1945 and growing animosity between the two that actually led them to split for a short time.

Abbott played a third role in this film as well, that of Chandler's and Morrison's grandmother (only seen in a painting).

The opening scene where Costello is trying to sell Sid Fields more than just the gasoline that he came to buy was originally filmed with another actor, Ed Waller.

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