| Their Big Moment | |
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| Directed by | James Cruze Charles Kerr (assistant) |
| Screenplay by | Arthur Caesar Marion Dix |
| Based on | Afterwards 1933 play byWalter Hackett |
| Produced by | Pandro S. Berman Cliff Reid |
| Starring | ZaSu Pitts Slim Summerville Kay Johnson |
| Cinematography | Harold Wenstrom |
| Edited by | William Hamilton |
| Music by | Max Steiner |
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| Distributed by | RKO Pictures |
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Running time | 68 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
Their Big Moment is a 1934 Americanmystery film directed byJames Cruze, from a screenplay byArthur Caesar andMarion Dix. The film starredZaSu Pitts andSlim Summerville. It is based on the 1933West End playAfterwards byWalter Hackett which had run for more than two hundred performances in London. While most of the Pitts-Summerville teamings were comedies, this was a serious drama in which they merely played comic-relief characters; their star billing was thus misleading.
Tillie Whim, a timid stage assistant to The Great La Salle in a small mentalist act playing a Vaudeville theater, is harassed, bullied, and undermined by the act's co-star, primadonna Lottie. When Lottie finally attempts to fire Tillie after a performance, La Salle fires Lottie instead.
The remaining troupe are then hired backstage by an audience member to debunk another mentalist, whom he accuses of exploiting his friend, a grief-stricken woman who has recently lost her husband in a plane crash. Tillie is promoted to Lottie's old role as medium, but unexpectedly deviates from the script when the spirit of the departed tells her that the plane crash was murder.
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