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About
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.
Theatrical
Feb 22, 1946
Director
Writers
Producer
Music
Studio
Universal Pictures
Quotes
See all →Vacuum Cleaners for Sale
Taglines
They're Selling Vacuum Cleaners!
Quotes sourced from Wikiquote (© Wikiquote contributors), licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. Modified for formatting/length.
School Experience and Personal Growth
T.S. Chandler
Did you ever go to school, stupid?
Benny Miller
Yes, sir, and I came out the same way.
Quotes sourced from Wikiquote (© Wikiquote contributors), licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. Modified for formatting/length.
Cast
Full credits →B
Bud Abbott
Eddie L. Morrison / T.S. Chandler
L
Lou Costello
Benny Miller
J
Jacqueline deWit
Hazel Temple Morrison
B
Brenda Joyce
Miss Ruby Burke
G
George Cleveland
Clarence Goodring
E
Elena Verdugo
Martha Hill
M
Mary Gordon
Ma Miller
P
Pierre Watkin
P.S. Van Loon
D
Donald MacBride
The conductor
V
Victor Kilian
Gus Anderson (salesman)
G
George Chandler
O'Brien (salesman)
J
Joe Kirk
Salesman
H
Harry Brown
Larry, Salesman
B
Beatrice Gray
Miss King
S
Sid Fields
Air-pump customer
M
Margaret Dumont
Mrs. Hendrickson
M
Milt Bronson
Salesman (uncredited)
L
Lane Chandler
Lost Motorist (uncredited)
D
Dorothy Christy
Jim's wife (uncredited)
T
Tom Coleman
Man in Stockton Office (uncredited)
