Big Business is a 1924 short silent

Silent film

A silent film is a film with no synchronized recorded sound, especially with no spoken dialogue. In silent films for entertainment the dialogue is transmitted through muted gestures, pantomime and title cards...

 comedy film

Comedy film

Comedy film is a genre of film in which the main emphasis is on humour. They are designed to elicit laughter from the audience. Comedies are mostly light-hearted dramas and are made to amuse and entertain the audiences...

 directed by Robert F. McGowan

Robert F. McGowan

Robert Francis McGowan was an American film director and producer, best known as the senior director of the Our Gang short subjects film series from 1922 until 1933.-Career:...

. It was the 22nd Our Gang

Our Gang

Our Gang, also known as The Little Rascals or Hal Roach's Rascals, was a series of American comedy short films about a group of poor neighborhood children and the adventures they had together. Created by comedy producer Hal Roach, the series is noted for showing children behaving in a relatively...

short subject released.

Plot

The gang starts up their own barbershop, giving the neighborhood kids haircuts that wouldn't become popular for another sixty years. When they see Mickie in his Little Lord Fauntleroy outfit, they kidnap him and give him the works. Mickie then decides to join them in their enterprise.

Cast

• Mickey Daniels
  Mickey Daniels
  Richard "Mickey" Daniels, Jr. was a juvenile actor. Signed by Hal Roach in 1923, he was, along with fat Joe Cobb, scruffy Jackie Condon, pretty Mary Kornman, and smiling "Sunshine Sammy" , a regular in the popular Our Gang comedies.-Biography:The red-haired, gap-toothed, freckled whipper snapper...
  
   – Michael 'Mickie'
• Joe Cobb
  Joe Cobb
  Joe Frank Cobb was a former American child actor, most notable for appearing as the original "fat boy" in the Our Gang comedies from 1922 to 1929...
  
   – Joe
• Allen Hoskins – Farina
• Jackie Condon
  Jackie Condon
  John Michael "Jackie" Condon was an American child actor who was a regular on the Our Gang short series during the Pathé silent era.-Career:...
  
   – Jackie
• Mary Kornman
  Mary Kornman
  Mary Kornman was an American child actress who was the leading female star of the Our Gang series during the Pathé silent era.-Our Gang:...
  
   – Mary
• Ernest Morrison – Sunshine Sammy
• Jannie Hoskins – Mango
• Andy Samuel
  Andy Samuel
  Andy Samuel , a native of Los Angeles, California, was a child actor who appeared in the Our Gang short subjects series from 1923 to 1925.-External links:...
  
   – Andy
• 'Sonny Boy' Warde – Sing Joy
• William Gillespie – Mickie's father
• Lyle Tayo
  Lyle Tayo
  Lyle Tayo was an American film actress who appeared in 59 films between 1921 and 1948. Tayo was born in Elmdale, Kansas and died in Hollywood, California. She is buried in Valhalla Memorial Park Cemetery....
  
   – Mickey's mother
• Charley Young – Gardener
• Allan Cavan
  Allan Cavan
  Allan Cavan was an American film actor. He appeared in 145 films between 1917 and 1941. He was born in Concord, California and died in Hollywood, California.-Selected filmography:* The Scarlet Car...
  
  – Office worker