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Plot
A naive country boy named Benny Miller (Lou Costello), from Cucamonga, California, has been taking correspondence phonograph lessons in salesmanship. Upon completion of the course, he leaves his mother (Mary Gordon) and his girlfriend Martha (Elena Verdugo) to pursue a career in Los Angeles. He arranges a meeting with his Uncle Clarence (George Cleveland), a bookkeeper with the Hercules Vacuum Cleaner Company. When he arrives to ask for a job, the sales manager, John Morrison (Bud Abbott), mistakes him for one of the auditioning fashion models and has him remove his clothing. Morrison’s secret wife, Hazel Temple (Jacqueline de Wit), discovers the mistake and suggests that Benny be hired to avoid an accounting scandal, as they have been “cooking the books”. Unfortunately, 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 (also played by Bud Abbott).
Benny’s misfortunes continue, including a prank played on him by his new coworkers when they convince him that he can read minds. However, the prank gives Benny sufficient confidence to become Hercules’ ‘Salesman of the Year’. He is sent back to the Los Angeles branch to receive his award, and while demonstrating his ‘abilities’ to Morrison, he alludes to the fact that Morrison has a secret bank account. Morrison sends his wife (Hazel) to obtain more information from Benny to determine what he actually knows. Hazel and Benny go to her apartment, where Benny becomes ill after smoking a cigar. Hazel then gives Benny a sedative, and inadvertently takes one herself. Morrison comes home to find the two asleep together, and fears that they had a tryst.
At the awards ceremony that evening, Benny learns of the mind-reading ruse, and overhears Morrison speaking ill of him. Benny returns to his mother and his girlfriend in Cucamonga, where he also encounters Chandler, his coworker Ruby (Brenda Joyce), and the Hercules company president, Mr. Van Loon (Pierre Watkins). They announce that Morrison has been fired, and has been replaced by Chandler. Benny is now sales manager of the Cucamonga district.
Production
Little Giant was filmed from November 1 through December 17, 1945.
In this film, and the next Abbott and Costello film, The Time of Their Lives (1946), both have the team playing separate roles as opposed to partners. This is because there was tension between the two men that actually led them to splitting up the team for a short while in 1945.
Abbott played a third role in this film as well, that of Chandler’s and Morrison’s grandmother.
The opening scene where Costello is trying to sell Sid Fields more than just the gasoline that he came to buy was originally filmed with another actor, Eddie Waller.
Rerelease
It was re-released in 1951 along with The Time of Their Lives, and in 1954 with One Night in the Tropics.
Routines
Abbott and Costello perform the 7×13=28 routine, where Costello attempts to prove to Abbott that 7 times 13 equals 28, 28 divided by 7 equals 13, and seven 13’s added together equals 28.
DVD Release
This film has been released twice on DVD. The first time, on The Best of Abbott and Costello Volume Two, on May 4, 2004, and again on October 28, 2008 as part of Abbott and Costello: The Complete Universal Pictures Collection.
References
^ Furmanek, Bob and Ron Palumbo (1991). Abbott and Costello in Hollywood. New York: Perigee Books. ISBN 0-399-51605-0
External links
Little Giant at the Internet Movie Database
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Films
One Night in the Tropics Buck Privates In the Navy Hold That Ghost Keep ‘Em Flying Ride ‘Em Cowboy Rio Rita Pardon My Sarong Who Done It? It Ain’t Hay Hit the Ice In Society Lost in a Harem Here Come the Co-Eds The Naughty Nineties Abbott and Costello in Hollywood Little Giant The Time of Their Lives Buck Privates Come Home The Wistful Widow of Wagon Gap The Noose Hangs High Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein Mexican Hayride 10,000 Kids and a Cop Africa Screams Abbott and Costello Meet the Killer, Boris Karloff Abbott and Costello in the Foreign Legion Abbott and Costello Meet the Invisible Man Comin’ Round the Mountain Jack and the Beanstalk Lost in Alaska Abbott and Costello Meet Captain Kidd Abbott and Costello Go to Mars Abbott and Costello Meet Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde Abbott and Costello Meet the Keystone Kops Abbott and Costello Meet the Mummy Dance with Me, Henry The 30 Foot Bride of Candy Rock (Costello only) The World of Abbott and Costello
Television
The Abbott and Costello Show The Abbott and Costello Cartoon Show (Abbott only)
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Categories: English-language films | 1946 films | Films directed by William A. Seiter | Black and white films | Abbott and Costello (film series) | American films | Universal Pictures films
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