The Big Store (1941)

Ravelli: I take-a your picture. Hey! Look at me and laugh.
Wolf J. Flywheel: I've been doing that for 20 years.

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Mr. Grover: If Ms. Phelps were not my fiancée, I would turn in my resignation and walk out of this store for good!
Martha Phelps: Oh no, no...
Wolf J. Flywheel: Fiancée?
Martha Phelps: Yes.
Wolf J. Flywheel: You mean a woman of your culture and money and beauty and money and wealth and money would, would marry that imposter?

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[Wolf is about to propose to Martha]
Wolf J. Flywheel: Martha, dear, there are many bonds that will hold us together through eternity.
Martha Phelps: Really, Wolf? What are they?
Wolf J. Flywheel: Your government bonds, your savings bonds, your liberty bonds.

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"The Big Store" is American con artists' jargon for a facility used by con artists in a 'Big Con', that is, one that requires multiple days to pull off, with a realistic setting, characters, etc, essentially a full-on drama put on for the benefit of the mark. The Big Store itself exists to be dressed up as, e.g., a brokerage or gambling house, depending on the con. A well-managed Big Store can go from an empty set of rooms to a bustling office with activity in all directions--and back again--in a matter of a few hours. Not seen very much these days, the Big Store had its golden age en the 30s and 40s, around about the time this movie was made. A well-known film example of a "Big Store" con is the one played on Robert Shaw by Robert Redford and Paul Newman in The Sting.
The Marx Brothers announced that this would be their last film, but they actually went on to make two more.
Although William Tannen is credited as "Fred Sutton" in the movie's credits, he is called "Chris" by others in the movie.
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