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.

Bud Abbott

(Eddie L. Morrison / T.S. Chandler)

Lou Costello

Jacqueline deWit

(Hazel Temple Morrison)

Brenda Joyce

(Miss Ruby Burke)

George Cleveland

(Clarence Goodring)

Elena Verdugo

Mary Gordon

Pierre Watkin

(P.S. Van Loon)

Donald MacBride

(The conductor)

Victor Kilian

(Gus Anderson (salesman))

George Chandler

(O'Brien (salesman))

Joe Kirk

Harry Brown

(Larry, Salesman)

Beatrice Gray

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))

Chester Conklin

(Hotel Valet (uncredited))

Pat Costello

(Customer (uncredited))

William 'Red' Donahue

(Mr. Perkins (uncredited))

Ralph Dunn

(Passenger in Lower Berth #6 (uncredited))

Mary Field

(Secretary (uncredited))

Edward Gargan

(Policeman (uncredited))

George Holmes

(Hercules - Male Model (uncredited))

Donald Kerr

(Salesman (uncredited))

Florence Lake

(Housewife (uncredited))

Ethelreda Leopold

(Information Receptionist (uncredited))

Anne O'Neal

(Benny's First Customer (uncredited))

Ralph Peters

(Jim (uncredited))

Bert Roach

(Joe (bartender) (uncredited))

Milburn Stone

(Prof. Watkins (uncredited) (voice))