The Shop Around The Corner
Alfred Kralik is the top salesman at a leathergoods shop in Budapest owned by the high-strung Mr. Hugo Matuschek. Kralik's coworkers at Matuschek and Company include his friend, Pirovitch, Ferencz Vadas, and Pepi Katona. One morning, Kralik reveals to Pirovitch that he's been corresponding anonymously with an intelligent and cultured woman whose ad he came across in the newspaper.
9 February 1886, Dublin, Ireland
16 March 1876, Washington, District of Columbia, USA
31 August 1892, Bonner's Ferry, Idaho, USA
7 August 1899, London, England, UK
March 27, 1901 in Louisiana, USA
13 September 1920, Flint, Michigan, USA
12 March 1908, New York City, New York, USA
23 October 1892, New York City, New York, USA
24 July 1888, Newark, New Jersey, USA
22 March 1896, Vienna, Austria-Hungary [now Austria]
1 December 1917, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
17 November 1899, Galveston, Texas, USA
1 January 1885, San Fele, Basilicata, Italy
20 May 1908, Indiana, Pennsylvania, USA
13 August 1873, San Francisco, California, USA
20 August 1906, Michigan City, Indiana, USA
11 October 1881, Glyn Train, Denbighshire, South Wales, UK
5 August 1900, Pallagorio, Italy
1 June 1890, New York City, New York, USA
June 8, 1903 in New York City, New York, USA
29 January 1892, Berlin, Germany
2 March 1892, Eydtkuhnen, East Prussia, Germany [now Chernyshevskoe, Russia]
16 May 1909, Norfolk, Virginia, USA
March 14, 1874 in Germantown, Pennsylvania, USA
August 16, 2011
Entertaining to a fault, the film doesn't ignite the imagination in the way many other films of the period did.
December 15, 2010
Sure, the plot-turns are foreseeable, but the film's wit and perfectly gauged performances are undimmed delights.
December 09, 2010
Lubitsch demonstrates that romantic comedies, like popcorn, can be enjoyed salty as well as sweet.
February 10, 2014
One of the greatest romantic comedies.
February 09, 2006
Thoroughly different from To Be or Not To Be but just as exhilarating, it's one of the few films truly justifying Lubitsch's reputation for a 'touch.'
December 12, 2014
Nostalgic and charming romance with special moments in the extra-narrative action.
May 20, 2003
...a pretty kettle of bubbling brew it makes under Mr. Lubitsch's deft and tender management and with a genial company to play it gently, well this side of farce and well that side of utter seriousness.
November 27, 2007
Although picture carries the indelible stamp of Ernst Lubitsch at his best in generating humor and human interest from what might appear to be unimportant situations, it carries further to impress via the outstanding characterizations by Margaret Sullavan
December 19, 2012
Wonderful period low-budget light romantic comedy taking place during the Depression among a few underpaid neurotics surviving in the workforce of a small notions store.
November 27, 2007
This 1940 film is one of Ernst Lubitsch's finest and most enduring works, a romantic comedy of dazzling range.
December 22, 2014
The charm of the gimmick in Lubitsch's take is passed over quickly in favor of studying both its effects on those involved, as well as the dynamics of the workplace at large.
December 05, 2008
As the plot has as many complications as characters, much of the fun comes in watching Scripter Samson Raphaelson neatly tangle and untangle them without tying himself in a hard knot.
