25 Feb 2015
Focus
Nicky, an accomplished con artist, gets romantically involved with his disciple Jess but later ends their relationship. Years later, she returns as a femme fatale to spoil his plans.
Little Giant
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.
Top Billed Cast
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)
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