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Le Million (1931)
Directed by René Clair
“You MUST see it to know how indescribably clever and enormously "smart" a movie CAN be!”
Comedy, Music · 1h 23m
Debt-ridden painter Michel is overcome with joy at discovering that he has just won 1 million florins in the Dutch lottery, but almost immediately, he discovers that his softhearted girlfriend, Béatrice, has given away his jacket containing the winning ticket to an elderly petty thief. Soon Michel, Beatrice and Michel's artistic rival, Prosper, are hurtling through the streets of Paris on the trail of the missing jacket.
Cast
René Lefèvre
Michel Bouflette
Annabella
Béatrice
Jean-Louis Allibert
Prosper
Paul Ollivier
Père La Tulipe
Vanda Gréville
Vanda
Constantin Siroesco
Ambrosio Sopranelli
Raymond Cordy
Le chauffeur de taxi
Odette Talazac
La cantatrice
Pedro Elviro
Le régisseur (as Pitouto)
Jane Pierson
L'épicière
André Michaud
Le boucher
Eugène Stuber
Le policier
Crew
- Director
- René Clair
- Writer
- René Clair
- Director of Photography
- Georges Raulet, Georges Périnal
- Original Music Composer
- Philippe Parès, Armand Bernard, Georges Van Parys
Details
- Release date
- 1931-02-04
- Runtime
- 1h 23m
- Genres
- Comedy, Music
- Original language
- FR
- Spoken languages
- French
- Countries
- France
- Production
- Société des films sonores Tobis