The gang creates its own makeshift county fair, highlighted by a "movie," which is really a clever stage performance.The gang creates its own makeshift county fair, highlighted by a "movie," which is really a clever stage performance.The gang creates its own makeshift county fair, highlighted by a "movie," which is really a clever stage performance.
Jackie Condon
- Jackie
- (as Hal Roach's Rascals)
Mickey Daniels
- Mickey
- (as Hal Roach's Rascals)
Jack Davis
- Jack
- (as Hal Roach's Rascals)
Allen 'Farina' Hoskins
- Farina
- (as Hal Roach's Rascals)
Mary Kornman
- Mary
- (as Hal Roach's Rascals)
Ernest Morrison
- Booker T.
- (as Hal Roach's Rascals)
Richard Billings
- Muggsy
- (as Hal Roach's Rascals)
Andy Samuel
- Andy
- (as Hal Roach's Rascals)
Donald Hughes
- Harold Lloyd Impersonator
- (uncredited)
Clarence Moorehouse
- Police officer
- (uncredited)
Vonda Phelps
- Missing Teeth Girl
- (uncredited)
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Did you know
- TriviaThe story involves the Rascals performing in a make-believe movie theater where they imitate Charles Chaplin, Harold Lloyd, Douglas Fairbanks, William S. Hart, Uncle Tom and the security guard character played by 'Gilbert, Dick'. The Chaplin imitation includes a gag repeated from Shoulder Arms (1918) wherein The Little Tramp disguises himself as a tree. The Fairbanks imitation (courtesy of Mickey Daniels) specifically refers to The Three Musketeers (1921). The Lloyd imitation borrows from Grandma's Boy (1922).
- GoofsThe copyright on the title screen is supposed to be for the year 1923. It is written in Roman numerals, but as "MDCCCCXXIII." That is not the correct way to write 1923 in Roman numerals. It should have been "MCMXXIII."
- ConnectionsEdited into Mischief Makers (1960)
Featured review
The Big Show was another amusing Our Gang short
This Hal Roach comedy short, The Big Show, is the seventh in the "Our Gang/Little Rascals" series. It's also notable as the debut of two more important members of the gang: chubby Joe Cobb and new leading lady Mary Kornman. The gang can't afford the county fair that's currently playing in town so they look through the peepholes at the gate but a cop shoos them away. They eventually have their own fair with various pets disguised as the wild animals. But the real attraction is a "movie" starring the big stars of the time impersonated by the gang. Among those imitated: Charlie Chaplin, Harold Lloyd, Douglas Fairbanks, and William S. Hart. I'll stop there and just say this was quite amusing if not completely hilarious. It probably helps if you've seen the films reenacted by the gang. So that's a recommendation of The Big Show.
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- tavm
- Sep 20, 2014
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- Runtime20 minutes
- Color
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- Aspect ratio
- 1.33 : 1
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