Le Million

Feb 4, 1931

1h 23m

★ 6.9

You MUST see it to know how indescribably clever and enormously "smart" a movie CAN be!

Overview

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.

Genres

Comedy

Music

Production Companies

Société des films sonores Tobis

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Cast

Michel Bouflette

René Lefèvre

Béatrice

Annabella

Prosper

Jean-Louis Allibert

Père La Tulipe

Paul Ollivier

Vanda

Vanda Gréville

Ambrosio Sopranelli

Constantin Siroesco

Le chauffeur de taxi

Raymond Cordy

La cantatrice

Odette Talazac

Le régisseur (as Pitouto)

Pedro Elviro

L'épicière

Jane Pierson

Le boucher

André Michaud

Le policier

Eugène Stuber

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