Big Business
About Big Business
Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy go door to door in California selling Christmas trees. James Finlayson will not buy one. The refusal turns into tit-for-tat wrecking that destroys his house and their car.
Cast & crew
More about Big Business
James W. Horne directed, and Wikidata also lists Leo McCarey as a director. McCarey supervised and, with H.M. Walker, wrote the script; Wikipedia says McCarey's writing credit was uncredited. Hal Roach produced, and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer distributed the short.
Themes
Look
George Stevens photographed the Christmas-tree feud.
Preservation
The Library of Congress placed Big Business on the National Film Registry in 1992.
Notes
- The catalog names the customer James Finlayson. Wikidata spells him Jimmy Finlayson.
- Charlie Hall, Lyle Tayo, Retta Palmer, and Tiny Sandford are on the Wikidata cast.
- Richard C. Currier edited the short.
- The Library of Congress selected it for the National Film Registry in 1992.
Scenes
- The salesmen and Finlayson demolish the house and the car in turn.
Also available
- Internet Archive (bb998899)
- Wikimedia Commons (Big Business (1929).webm)
