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- The Floorwalker (1916) Director: Charles Chaplin. An early example of the potential for department stores to field a plethora of comic props, The Floorwalker sees Chaplin as the Tramp creating havoc in store – whether testing shaving equipment, hiding from detectives in the luggage section or making entertaining use of a shoe department’s rolling ladder.
- Au bonheur des dames (1930) Director: Julien Duvivier. Adapted from an Emile Zola novel, Julien Duvivier’s Au bonheur des dames is something of a last hurrah for French silent filmmaking, and commercially suffered for its timing.
- Bachelor Mother (1939) Director: Garson Kanin. Common themes of the department store film, especially comedies, are a seemingly unlikely romance between shopgirl and store owner, as well as mistaken identities and undercover disguises.
- The Big Store (1941) Director: Charles Reisner. Advertised as the final Marx Brothers film – the Brothers would in fact reunite for two further outings – The Big Store made full use of its department store setting, resulting in a chase sequence employing stunt doubles and stop-motion photography, and taking in an elevator, a bicycle, a mail chute and Harpo skating in oversized roller skates.
Film in which a significant portion of the action takes place within a department store.
- The Shopgirl's screen Heyday
- Consumer Boom
- Malls and Montages
- Shopping European Style
- Ghouls and Grottos
A year earlier, Charlie Chaplin had excelled as the pesky customer who becomes an accidental hero in The Floorwalker and he would return to the shop floor as a nightwatchman with novel notions of security in his final silent, Modern Times (1936). Fellow slapstick icon Harold Lloyd performed his most famous stunt when hanging from a clock face while...
In adapting a stage play by SJ Perelman and Ogden Nash, William A. Seiter showed considerable imagination in One Touch of Venus(1948), as a kiss from New York window dresser Robert Walker brings store statue Ava Gardner to vivacious life. But fewer films were being set in department stores, as they became the site of key scenes rather than entire s...
Although the Cinema Paradiso focus is falling on department stores, it would be remiss not to drop into some of American cinema's more iconic shopping malls. Among the busiest venues is the Sherman Oaks Galleria on Ventura Boulevard in Los Angeles, which has featured in such diverse pictures as Amy Heckerling's Fast Times At Ridgemont High (1982), ...
The Griswald family did its bit for the Italian economy with a clothes shopping spree in Rome in Amy Heckerling's National Lampoon's European Vacation (1985), although their efforts seem positively restrained by comparison with Kirsten Dunst's gleefully anachronistic shopaholicism in Sofia Coppola's Marie Antoinette (2006). More Parisian outlets fe...
Satan and Santa have each played their part in cinema's department store story, although there has yet to be a movie entitled Slay Bells Ring, in which demonic elves torment a jolly man in a red suit in a sacrificial grotto. That said, the nine year-old son of a Printemps store manager gets more than he bargained for when he tries to capture Mr Cla...
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- Mirto Lusso
Department Store: Directed by Leslie S. Hiscott. With Jack Melford, Sebastian Shaw, Garry Marsh, Patric Curwen. The heir to a London department store must learn the business, but he must start off by working his way through the various menial jobs incognito first.
Lily Gladstone shines in the spotlight for emotional drama ‘Fancy Dance’. A nuanced, keenly-observed...
