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.
Made in US
5.2/10
1946
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Cast
Bud Abbott
As Eddie L. Morrison / T.S. Chandler
Lou Costello
As Benny Miller
Jacqueline deWit
As Hazel Temple Morrison
Brenda Joyce
As Miss Ruby Burke
George Cleveland
As Clarence Goodring
Elena Verdugo
As Martha Hill
Mary Gordon
As Ma Miller
Pierre Watkin
As P.S. Van Loon
Donald MacBride
As The conductor
Victor Kilian
As Gus Anderson (salesman)
George Chandler
As O'Brien (salesman)
Joe Kirk
As Salesman
Harry Brown
As Larry, Salesman
Beatrice Gray
As Miss King
Sid Fields
As Air-pump customer
Margaret Dumont
As Mrs. Hendrickson
Milt Bronson
As Salesman (uncredited)
Lane Chandler
As Lost Motorist (uncredited)
Dorothy Christy
As Jim's wife (uncredited)
Tom Coleman
As Man in Stockton Office (uncredited)
Chester Conklin
As Hotel Valet (uncredited)
Pat Costello
As Customer (uncredited)
William 'Red' Donahue
As Mr. Perkins (uncredited)
Ralph Dunn
As Passenger in Lower Berth #6 (uncredited)
Mary Field
As Secretary (uncredited)
Edward Gargan
As Policeman (uncredited)
George Holmes
As Hercules - Male Model (uncredited)
Donald Kerr
As Salesman (uncredited)
Florence Lake
As Housewife (uncredited)
Ethelreda Leopold
As Information Receptionist (uncredited)
Anne O'Neal
As Benny's First Customer (uncredited)
Ralph Peters
As Jim (uncredited)
Bert Roach
As Joe (bartender) (uncredited)
Milburn Stone
As Prof. Watkins (uncredited) (voice)
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