The Shop Around the Corner overview

The Shop Around the Corner

Synopsis:

The Shop Around the Corner is adapted from the Hungarian play by Nikolaus (Miklos) Laszlo. Budapest gift-shop clerk Alfred Kralik (James Stewart) and newly hired shopgirl Klara Novak (Margaret Sullavan) hate each other almost at first sight. Kralik would prefer the company of the woman with whom he is corresponding by mail but has never met. Novak likewise carries a torch for her male pen pal, whom she also has never laid eyes on. It doesn't take a PhD degree to figure out that Kralik and Novak have been writing letters to each other.


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Movie Details:

  • Director: Ernst Lubitsch
  • Studio: MGM
  • Year: 1940
  • Run Time: 99 minutes
  • Country: USA
  • Language: English
  • Set in: Budapest, Hungary
  • MPAA Rating: NR
  • Category: Feature
  • Genre/Type: Romance, Comedy
  • Filmed in: Available in Colorized Version, B&W