Review of Little Giant

Bud Abbott only appears occasionally as the sales managers (they are cousins) from different branches of "The Hercules Vacuum Cleaner Co.". They have two great sketches together. "13 goes into 7-28 times" and when Lou is asked to disrobe to pose as Hercules in an ad. Costello plays a sweet and naive country bumpkin that has charm and very little else going for him. Of course one of the cleaners has to malfunction and spray black soot over everything! He carries almost the entire movie by himself. Once you get used to that, sit back and enjoy a film you haven't seen for years! The first 20 minutes introduce several characters including his mom and fiancée. The movie would play fine without an annoying and complaining "customer" who only "buys" free air. He charms all the pretty "girls" who find him cute. The "boys" (salesmen) play an old bar-room gag on him, convincing him that he can read minds. The next day he sells 9 "Little Giants"! He wins a $10,000 salesmanship prize. In 1946 that was a lot of money. I enjoyed it! (Now playing on TCM.)