“The Shop Around the Corner” is a romantic comedy, based on a play by Nikolaus Laszlo and Directed by Ernst Lubitsch.
In Budapest, Hungary, Matuschek and Company’s
gift store is owned by Mr. Hugo Matuschek (Frank Morgan) and bachelor Alfred
Kralik (James Stewart) is his best and most experienced salesman.
But everything seems to go awry when Klara
Novak (Margaret Sullavan) is hired by Mr Matuschek, but from the first moment
Kralik and she meet they do not get along.
Over the weeks that follows the lonely and
dedicated Kralik has an anonymous pen pal and through their correspondence he
falls in love with her and intends to propose to her.
Simultaneously however his relationship with
his employer deteriorates and he is fired without explanation by Mr Matuschek
on the very same night that he is going to meet his secret love and propose.
He goes to the bar that night regardless where
they have scheduled their meeting with his colleague Pirovitch (Felix Bressart)
and he surprisingly finds that Klara is his correspondent, however he chooses
not disclose his identity to her because he feels ashamed after being sacked.
But following a shocking incident, involving
salesman Ferencz Vadas (Joseph Schildkraut), shop boy Pepi
Katona (William Tracy) and Matuschek himself, he has a change of heart
and hires Kralik back again but this time to manage the shop.
However as Klara is still fascinated with her
correspondent she pays little or no attention to Alfred so it would take all
his guile and cunning to work out a plan to reveal himself to Klara who exactly
he is.
But anything is possible, it is Christmas
after all and everyone loves a happy ending.
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