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You MUST see it to know how indescribably clever and enormously "smart" a movie CAN be! - Le Million
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Title: Le Million

Release Date: 4 Feb 1931

Runtime: 1h 23m

Genre: Comedy, Music

Director: Société des films sonores Tobis

Production Companies: Société des films sonores Tobis

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.

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Average Vote: 6.9 (79 votes)

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
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