The Measure of a Man follows the story of a man in France who is facing unemployment and financial struggles as he tries to support his disabled son. He navigates the challenges of working at a department store and dealing with surveillance cameras and workplace drama. The film explores themes of poverty, consumerism, and the impact of the economic crisis
The Floorwalker is a silent comedy short film from 1916. It follows the adventures of a clumsy man who works in a department store and gets into various comedic situations. The film features comedic pratfalls, foiled robberies, and a mix-up with identities. It is a classic example of slapstick comedy.
A police detective uses any means possible to trap a gang of shoplifters.
Bill Burnett, a resident of Bali, visits New York City, meets and falls in love with Gail Allen, the successful manager of a Fifth Avenue shop, who is determined to remain free and independent. Bill proposes, Gail declines and Bill goes home to Bali. But a young girl, Rosie, and Tony the Window Cleaner, who dispels advice on every floor, soon have Gail thinking maybe she was a bit hasty with her no to Bill's proposal. Ere long she discovers that she does love Bill and can't live without him. She goes down to Bali to give him the good news. He learns that he is soon to marry Noel Van Ness. She goes back to New York City.
A feckless young man who wishes to switch from one streetcar to another is told to follow a pretty young lady-- so he follows her all over town.
Love with a clerk and a robbery by gangsters preoccupy a department store's new owner.
Charley has several dilemmas facing him at Christmas, all posed by his greedy, heartless landlord Noah and his family.
The story of an security guard whose spotless record at crime prevention marks the horrifying reality of deception, blackmail and murder.
On the train trip home from school, all the kids except Dave talk about taking a vacation trip to Lake Arrowhead; Dave wants a summer job. Alabam suggests that his uncle might hire Dave at a department store. The uncle likes Dave's attitude and tells Alabam and Mickey they should work there too. Reluctantly, Alabam takes a sales assignment in ladies' accessories, where he's charming but clueless. Mickey, lazy and on the take, sees the store detective helping himself to a chocolate bar, so he wants that job. Dave learns the hard way that the customer is always right, Mickey puts the cuffs on the wrong customer, and Lake Arrowhead looks very far away.
Horst Adamski takes a job as a department store detective and promptly falls in love with busy shoplifter Lili. His special approaches, however, rather intimidate Lili and call her unscrupulous boyfriend Wolf into action. To make the chaos perfect, the co-worker Erika also falls in love with Adamski...
When the owner of a department store is about to go on vacation, he tells his children that any idiot could run the store. So they put Joe Cook in charge.
Hotsy-Totsy is a 1925 comedy short.
A comedy short.
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