"The Shop Around The Corner" Without Any Christmas or Romance Is Still A Pretty Good Movie About Luggage Inventory
“That’s a new silver fox! It’s stunning.”
“Thank you.”
“It must have been pretty expensive.”
“It was.”
“Pepi, go to the drugstore and get me a bicarbonate of soda.”
“Kralik had dinner with the boss last night.”
“How was it? Tell us all about it?”
“It was a very nice evening, and I enjoyed myself.”
“I bet the food was good.”
“You can imagine.”
“Who put this suitcase in the window?”
“I did, Mr. Matuschek.”
“I guess it’s all right.”
“.You see, I wanted to buy an encyclopedia. You come to a time in your life when you get tired of going to cafes and dance halls every night, and you want to improve yourself. You want to study something about art, literature, and history — how people live in Brazil.”
“I can buy two dozen of these cigarette boxes at Miklos Brothers.”
“No, Mr. Matuschek, it’s not for us.”
“But you haven’t listened to it. It plays Ochi Tchornya.”
“Even if it played Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony, I’d still say no. I just don’t like the idea.”
“Good morning, madam.”
“Good morning.”
“A lovely bag, don’t you think?”
“Yes, very.”
“It’s an imported model. We have it in pigskin, several different colors, with or without fitted accessories.”
“I put all the imported bags over there on the shelf. Is that how you wanted it?”
“Let’s see, we need three people to dress the “A” window.”
“Miss Novotni and I can manage the novelty window by ourselves.”
“Have you any traveling bags for men with a zipper?”
“We have all types of traveling bags for men with zippers.”
“Thank you very much. I’m doing some window-shopping for my husband.”
“Flora, you’ll notice when you look through my sales back I cancelled slip number five, but I deducted it from the total. Goodbye.”
“I see, Mrs. Matuschek. He did some errands for you…Oh, you don’t say! He forgot to pick up a bottle of perfume at Chabot’s? Isn’t that too bad!”
“I’m still nothing but an errand boy at Matuschek and Company.”
“In other words, you’d like to be a clerk?”
“I wouldn’t put it that brutally.”
“I want you to take all the big black suitcases from the top shelf, and move them to the bottom, and the big brown ones from the bottom shelf, and move them to the top shelf.”
“I’m in charge of the shop.”
“I can promise you I’ll be back in the shop tomorrow, and I’ll sell more goods than ever before.”
”Can you imagine me, over two weeks in the hospital without seeing a single customer? The only piece of leather goods in the place was my nurse’s handbag. And where do you think she got it? At Blasek and Company! And they expect me to get well?”
“Do you think Erik would like that briefcase?”
“I don’t know. I’m not so sure.”
“Rudy! Do you like chicken noodle soup?”
“I certainly do.”
The repetitiveness of this dialogue reminds me of the "Do you like my hat" dog from "Go Dog Go"
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