Big Business

1929 · comedy · family · Hal Roach Studios · Hal Roach Studios

Title: Big Business Summary: Ollie and Stanley are two Christmas Tree sales reps who get into one of their usual mutual destruction fights with a homeowner. Directed by: James W. Horne, Leo McCarey Actors: Production Company: Hal Roach Studios Release Date: 20 April 1929 (USA) Aspect Ratio: 1.33 : 1 Stan and Ollie are Christmas tree salesmen in California. Business is slow and a simple argument with one grumpy prospective customer (James Finlayson) escalates from a simple argument into full scale mutual destruction with Stan & Ollie destroying the customers house and garden, whilst Finlayson reduces their car to scrap metal, all under the disbelieving gaze of a police officer and an assembled crowd.