Big Business (1934 film)

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Big Business
Directed by Cyril Gardner
Written byClaude Hulbert
Cyril Gardner
Produced by Irving Asher
Starring
Cinematography Basil Emmott
Production
company
Distributed byWarner Brothers
Release date
  • October 1934 (1934-10)
Running time
53 minutes
CountryUnited Kingdom
Language English

Big Business is a 1934 British comedy film directed by Cyril Gardner and starring Claude Hulbert, Eve Gray and Ernest Sefton. It was made at Teddington Studios as a quota quickie by the British subsidiary of Warner Brothers. [1] It is notably the second film of the same name that James Finlayson starred in.

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  1. Wood p.81

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