Little Giant
Little Giant is a 1946 American comedy drama film directed by William A. Seiter and starring the comedy team of Abbott and Costello alongside Brenda Joyce and Jacqueline deWit. It was produced and distributed by Universal Pictures. The film was released in the United Kingdom with the alternative title On the Carpet.
Plot
A naïve country boy named Benny Miller, from Cucamonga, California, has been taking correspondence phonograph lessons in salesmanship. Upon completion of the course, he leaves his mother and his girlfriend Martha to pursue a career in Los Angeles. He arranges a meeting with his Uncle Clarence, a bookkeeper with the Hercules Vacuum Cleaner Company. When he arrives to ask for a job, the sales manager, Eddie Morrison, mistakes him for one of the auditioning fashion models and has him remove his clothing. Morrison's secret wife, Hazel Temple, discovers the mistake and suggests that Benny be hired to avoid an accounting scandal, as they have been "cooking the books". Benny is fired from his salesman post after only one day. Clarence transfers Benny to the company's Stockton branch, which is run by Morrison's cousin, Tom Chandler.
More details
| author | Walter DeLeon |
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| contentLocation | California |
| director | William A. Seiter |
| editor | Fred R. Feitshans Jr. |
| genre | comedy-drama |
| keywords | bank account clothe cook even fashion model los angeles meet sale smoke speak vacuum cleaner |
| musicBy | Edgar Fairchild |
| producer | Joe Gershenson |
| productionCompany | Universal Pictures |
| publisher | Universal Pictures |