The Big Store
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Time Out says
Kitsch wins over comedy in the Marx Brothers' last MGM film, which remains in the mind mainly because of the amazingly awful 'Tenement Symphony', in which Tony Martin and a screen full of sparkling urchins warble a lyric of the finest drivel: 'The songs of the ghetto inspired the allegretto'. Nothing the Marx Brothers do is funnier than this, though Harpo and Chico's musical bits are livelier than usual. Dumont is prominently featured and totally mishandled, Groucho seems half asleep, and the plot (centred on a department store) doesn't bear thinking about.Author: GB
Release details
UK release:
1941
Duration:
83 mins
Cast and crew
Director:
Songs:
Milton Drake, Artie Shaw, Ray Golden Hal Borne, Sid Kuller
Cast:
The Marx Brothers, Tony Martin, Virginia Grey, Margaret Dumont, Douglas Dumbrille, Virginia O'Brien, Henry Armetta
Producer:
Screenwriter:
Sid Kuller, Hal Fimberg, Ray Golden
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