Little Giant

They're Selling Vacuum Cleaners!

90 mins
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.

Bud Abbott

Eddie L. Morrison / T.S. Chandler

Lou Costello

Benny Miller

Jacqueline deWit

Hazel Temple Morrison

Brenda Joyce

Miss Ruby Burke

George Cleveland

Clarence Goodring

Elena Verdugo

Martha Hill

Mary Gordon

Ma Miller

Pierre Watkin

P.S. Van Loon

Donald MacBride

The conductor

Victor Kilian

Gus Anderson (salesman)

George Chandler

O'Brien (salesman)

Joe Kirk

Salesman

Harry Brown

Larry, Salesman

Beatrice Gray

Miss King

Sid Fields

Air-pump customer

Margaret Dumont

Mrs. Hendrickson

Milt Bronson

Salesman (uncredited)

Lane Chandler

Lost Motorist (uncredited)

Dorothy Christy

Jim's wife (uncredited)

Tom Coleman

Man in Stockton Office (uncredited)

Chester Conklin

Hotel Valet (uncredited)

Pat Costello

Customer (uncredited)

William 'Red' Donahue

Mr. Perkins (uncredited)

Ralph Dunn

Passenger in Lower Berth #6 (uncredited)

Mary Field

Secretary (uncredited)

Edward Gargan

Policeman (uncredited)

George Holmes

Hercules - Male Model (uncredited)

Donald Kerr

Salesman (uncredited)

Florence Lake

Housewife (uncredited)

Ethelreda Leopold

Information Receptionist (uncredited)

Anne O'Neal

Benny's First Customer (uncredited)

Ralph Peters

Jim (uncredited)

Bert Roach

Joe (bartender) (uncredited)

Milburn Stone

Prof. Watkins (uncredited) (voice)

Walter DeLeon

Screenplay

Vera West

Costume Design

Carmen Dirigo

Hairstylist

Edgar Fairchild

Original Music Composer

Edward R. Robinson

Set Decoration

Charles Van Enger

Director of Photography

John B. Goodman

Art Direction

Russell A. Gausman

Set Decoration

Martin Obzina

Art Direction

Jack Pierce

Makeup Artist

Edgar Fairchild

Music Director

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