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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.
13 September 1920, Flint, Michigan, USA
5 August 1900, Pallagorio, Italy
7 August 1899, London, England, UK
March 27, 1901 in Louisiana, USA
29 January 1892, Berlin, Germany
March 14, 1874 in Germantown, Pennsylvania, USA
1 January 1885, San Fele, Basilicata, Italy
31 August 1892, Bonner's Ferry, Idaho, USA
17 November 1899, Galveston, Texas, USA
24 July 1888, Newark, New Jersey, USA
December 09, 2010
Lubitsch demonstrates that romantic comedies, like popcorn, can be enjoyed salty as well as sweet.
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.
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.
February 10, 2014
One of the greatest romantic comedies.
November 27, 2007
This 1940 film is one of Ernst Lubitsch's finest and most enduring works, a romantic comedy of dazzling range.
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.
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.
August 16, 2011
Entertaining to a fault, the film doesn't ignite the imagination in the way many other films of the period did.
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 15, 2010
Sure, the plot-turns are foreseeable, but the film's wit and perfectly gauged performances are undimmed delights.
December 12, 2014
Nostalgic and charming romance with special moments in the extra-narrative action.
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
