Movies

HomeMoviesSearchTV SeriesBookmarksView Source
Little Giant
Little Giant

Little Giant

They're Selling Vacuum Cleaners!

Genres

Comedy

OverView

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.

Others

Budget

$--

Revenue

$--

Status

Released

Original Language

English

Runtime

90 mins

Rating

5.3/10

Release Date

22 February 1946

Country

United States of America

Cast

Bud Abbott

Bud Abbott

Eddie L. Morrison / T.S. Chandler

Lou Costello

Lou Costello

Benny Miller

Jacqueline deWit

Jacqueline deWit

Hazel Temple Morrison

Brenda Joyce

Brenda Joyce

Miss Ruby Burke

George Cleveland

George Cleveland

Clarence Goodring

Elena Verdugo

Elena Verdugo

Martha Hill

Mary Gordon

Mary Gordon

Ma Miller

Pierre Watkin

Pierre Watkin

P.S. Van Loon

Donald MacBride

Donald MacBride

The conductor

Victor Kilian

Victor Kilian

Gus Anderson (salesman)

George Chandler

George Chandler

O'Brien (salesman)

Joe Kirk

Joe Kirk

Salesman

Harry Brown

Harry Brown

Larry, Salesman

Beatrice Gray

Beatrice Gray

Miss King

Sid Fields

Sid Fields

Air-pump customer

Margaret Dumont

Margaret Dumont

Mrs. Hendrickson

Milt Bronson

Milt Bronson

Salesman (uncredited)

Lane Chandler

Lane Chandler

Lost Motorist (uncredited)

Dorothy Christy

Dorothy Christy

Jim's wife (uncredited)

Tom Coleman

Tom Coleman

Man in Stockton Office (uncredited)

Chester Conklin

Chester Conklin

Hotel Valet (uncredited)

Pat Costello

Pat Costello

Customer (uncredited)

William 'Red' Donahue

William 'Red' Donahue

Mr. Perkins (uncredited)

Ralph Dunn

Ralph Dunn

Passenger in Lower Berth #6 (uncredited)

Mary Field

Mary Field

Secretary (uncredited)

Edward Gargan

Edward Gargan

Policeman (uncredited)

George Holmes

George Holmes

Hercules - Male Model (uncredited)

Donald Kerr

Donald Kerr

Salesman (uncredited)

Florence Lake

Florence Lake

Housewife (uncredited)

Ethelreda Leopold

Ethelreda Leopold

Information Receptionist (uncredited)

Anne O'Neal

Anne O'Neal

Benny's First Customer (uncredited)

Ralph Peters

Ralph Peters

Jim (uncredited)

Bert Roach

Bert Roach

Joe (bartender) (uncredited)

Milburn Stone

Milburn Stone

Prof. Watkins (uncredited) (voice)

Similar Movies

5.5

Dear God

November 1996 •English

A judge gives con-man Tom Turner a choice—a jail sentence, or a year of honest work. But when he gets a job in the U.S. Post Office's dead letter office, he starts a Good Samaritan con by answering letters written to God. His seemingly virtuous work inspires his co-workers to do the same, but their good deeds are frowned upon by the postmaster general—and the cops.

5.0

Earthworm Tractors

July 1936 •English

A salesman tries to sell a tractor to a customer who hates tractors while falling for the girl.

7.0

Matchstick Men

September 2003 •English

A phobic con artist and his protege are on the verge of pulling off a lucrative swindle when the con artist's teenage daughter arrives unexpectedly.

6.4

I Love You Phillip Morris

February 2010 •English

Steven Russell leads a seemingly average life – an organ player in the local church, happily married to Debbie, and a member of the local police force. That is until he has a severe car accident that leads him to the ultimate epiphany: he’s gay and he’s going to live life to the fullest – even if he has to break the law to do it. Taking on an extravagant lifestyle, Steven turns to cons and fraud to make ends meet and is eventually sent to the State Penitentiary where he meets the love of his life, a sensitive, soft-spoken man named Phillip Morris. His devotion to freeing Phillip from jail and building the perfect life together prompts him to attempt (and often succeed at) one impossible con after another.

4.7

LiebesLuder

November 2000 •German

Pretty student Ina arrives in the small town of Meschede. After setting up a date with the bus driver Speedy, she flirts with other locals at the local private airfield. She soon begins affairs with the banker Peter Nase, the sawmill owner Wagner and the married manager of the airfield, Dirk Karuso. Master butcher Wusch, on the other hand, remains faithful to his wife.

0.0

While the Cat's Away

January 1936 •English

Henry and Johnnie need to clean the apartment before the wives get home.

5.9

Camp Nowhere

August 1994 •English

Morris "Mud" Himmel has a problem. His parents desperately want to send him away to summer camp. He hates going to summer camp, and would do anything to get out of it. Talking to his friends, he realizes that they are all facing the same sentence: a boring summer camp. Together with his friends, he hatches a plan to trick all the parents into sending them to a camp of their own design.

6.6

Support Your Local Gunfighter

May 1971 •English

A con artist arrives in a mining town controlled by two competing companies. Both companies think he's a famous gunfighter and try to hire him to drive the other out of town.

4.3

Tabloid!

September 1989 •English

Aliens invade an aerobics class before the credits roll in this horror anthology spoof illustrating outrageous stories that could easily be found in a tabloid newspaper at your local grocery store checkout! The stories are: Baby Born With Full Beard, BBQ Of The Dead, and Killer Vacuum Destroys Town

6.3

Diggstown

August 1992 •English

Gabriel Caine has just been released from prison when he sets up a bet with a business man who owns most of Diggstown, a boxing-mad town. The bet is that Gabe can find a boxer that will knock out 10 Diggstown men, in a boxing ring, within 24 hours. Roy 'Honey' Palmer is that man that, at 48, many say he is too old.

6.4

The Love Scam

January 2025 •Italian

Drowning in debt, two brothers concoct a plan to scam a wealthy heiress and save their home in Naples — but unexpected love soon complicates the scheme.

7.9

Paper Moon

May 1973 •English

During the Great Depression, a con man finds himself saddled with a young girl who may or may not be his daughter, and the two forge an unlikely partnership.

6.8

Take the Trash

August 2008 •Danish

Jesper Jensen is a successful IT salesman who stops at nothing, even if it means backstabbing his best friend. Being number one in the company and having a beautiful wife and a lovely home, Jesper seems to lead a perfect life, but one day his arrogance and self confidence hits him in the face like a boomerang and he loses everything overnight. Jesper is sentenced to do community service at a recycling center with the odd and funny characters Dion, Theodor, and Lotte. At first he looks down on these people and doesn't want to be associated with them. When he begins to loosen up, however, he discovers that he can learn a lot from their straight forward and honest approach to life.

5.6

The Alibi

January 2006 •English

Con man Ray Elliot decides to leave crime behind to start a company that sells fake alibis to clients who have been unfaithful to their significant others. It seems that the streetwise Ray has found his calling, until he unexpectedly becomes a murder suspect in a case involving one of his most influential customers. Now, as the police and an assassin called "The Mormon" track Ray, he and his attractive assistant, Lola, must clear their own names.

6.4

The Discord

March 1978 •French

Guillaume has made it: A machine that can clean dirty air by simply sucking all dirt into air balloons and then shipping them far far away so his explanation. Some Japanese business guys, after dinner with a lot of alcohol, order 5,000 pieces. His only problem: His production capacity is way to small so he gets to produce the machines in his private house. His wife Bernadette is far from being happy about it. Her private life goes down the line so she decides to leave Guillaume and to finally have revenge she candidates for major against her husband...

6.4

Used Cars

July 1980 •English

When the owner of a struggling used car lot is killed, it's up to the lot's hot-shot salesman to save the property from falling into the hands of the owner's ruthless brother and used-car rival.

0.0

I am a Berliner

September 2005 •German

Felix Rath is a small and lovable rogue . When he finds handwritten love letters from John F. Kennedy to his aunt Agnes in the estate of his deceased mother , he deflected with his buddy Dietrich immediately his birth certificate . Now he is the illegitimate son of his aunt and John F. Kennedy , testified during his legendary visit to Berlin in 1963. Nina Wieser , journalist at a reputable Berliner Zeitung , finds to Felix's big surprise out that this is actually true - he is the natural son of Agnes Kennedy . Overnight Felix is famous, Nina and he will be a couple - it could not be better ! The pleasure of Kennedy - existence goes in but pretty quickly when he everywhere mysterious men suddenly sees with dark sunglasses . He will have to deal with the anxiety and will now definitely not be more Kennedy . But how to prove it now that he is nothing more than an imposter ?

5.7

Pippi Longstocking

August 1997 •English

Pippi Longstocking is an extraordinary little girl who lives alone in her house, while her father sails the seven seas. Pippi's irrepressibly fun nature makes her easy to befriend, as neighbors Tommy and Annika find, but can also earn ire, especially from social worker Mrs. Prysselius.

5.0

The Wendell Baker Story

August 2005 •English

Luke Wilson plays a good-hearted ex-con who gets a job in a retirement hotel. Three elderly residents help him win back his girlfriend as he lends them a hand in fighting hotel corruption.

6.2

Criminal

September 2004 •English

Needing a new partner capable of intricate cons, Richard Gaddis, recruits Rodrigo, a crook with a perfect poker face. The two plan a big-time scam: selling a fake Silver Certificate to currency collector William Hannigan. Rodrigo distrusts his new associate, but needs money to help out his ill father. The situation becomes more complicated when Rodrigo falls for Gaddis' sister, Valerie, drawing another player into the game.