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''The Big Store'' (1941) is a Marx Brothers comedy film in which Groucho, Chico and Harpo cause havoc in a Department Store. Groucho plays detective Wolf J. Flywheel, a character name originating from the Marx-Perrin radio show ''Flywheel, Shyster, and Flywheel'' in the early 1930s. ''The Big Store'' was the last of five films the team made under contract to Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer and it was advertised as their final film. However, they would return to the screen in ''A Night in Casablanca'' (1946) and ''Love Happy'' (1949). ''The Big Store'' co-starred long-time Marx Brothers foil Margaret Dumont as well as the love interests Tony Martin and Virginia Grey. ''The Big Store'' was Dumont's seventh and final film with the Marx Brothers. The villain was portrayed by Douglass Dumbrille, who had played a similar role in ''A Day at the Races''. Tagline: "Where everything is a good buy. Goodbye!" ==Plot== The Phelps Department Store owner Hiram Phelps has died, leaving half-ownership in the business to his nephew, singer Tommy Rogers. The other half is owned by Hiram's sister, Martha Phelps (Margaret Dumont), Tommy's aunt. Rogers has no interest in running a department store, so he plans to sell his interest and use the money to build a music conservatory. Store manager Grover (Douglas Dumbrille) wants to kill Rogers before he can sell his share, marry the wealthy Martha, then kill her to become sole owner of the Phelps Department Store. Martha is highly suspicious, worried about Tommy's safety lest anyone suspect her of foul play to take over the store. Against Grover's wishes she hires Wolf J. Flywheel (Groucho) as a floorwalker and bodyguard. Between Tommy wooing his sweetheart Joan (Virginia Grey) and Flywheel romancing Miss Phelps, the brothers eventually expose and thwart the plot to kill Tommy. The film has two extended scenes, one of them in the store's bed department, which has all kinds of novel beds that come out of the walls. The second lengthy scene takes place near the end of the film: Groucho, Chico and Harpo escape their pursuers during a madcap chase through the entire store, using the elevator, a staircase, chandeliers, roller skates, a mail chute and a bicycle. This chase involves an unusual amount of Mack Sennett-type slapstick stunts for a Marx Brothers movie. One gag breaks the fourth wall, during the "Sing While You Sell" sequence: while Groucho is narrating a fashion show, he asides "This is a bright red dress, but Technicolor is ''so'' expensive." Later in the film, Groucho breaks the fourth wall again when he comments "I told you in the first reel () was a crook." 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「The Big Store」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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