Le Million

Le Million

83 mins | Comedy, Music | Feb. 4, 1931

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.

Le Million

83 mins | Comedy, Music | Feb. 4, 1931

Le Million
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.
IMDb rating 7.3
Producers Films Sonores Tobis
Original title Le million
Directors René Clair
Writers Marcel Guillemaud, Georges Berr, René Clair

Cast

René Lefèvre

as Michel Bouflette

Annabella

as Béatrice

Jean-Louis Allibert

as Prosper

Paul Ollivier

as Père La Tulipe

Vanda Gréville

as Vanda

Constantin Siroesco

as Ambrosio Sopranelli

Raymond Cordy

as Le chauffeur de taxi

Odette Talazac

as La cantatrice

Pedro Elviro

as Le régisseur (as Pitouto)

Jane Pierson

as L'épicière

André Michaud

as Le boucher

Eugène Stuber

as Le policier

Pierre Alcover

as Le policier

Armand Bernard

as Le chef d'orchestre