Le Million
“You MUST see it to know how indescribably clever and enormously "smart" a movie CAN be!”
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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Cast
14 people
René Lefèvre
Michel Bouflette
Known for
The Crime of Monsieur Lange
Le Doulos
Annabella
Béatrice
Known for
Hôtel du Nord
Napoleon
Jean-Louis Allibert
Prosper
Also in
Poker d'As
Truant School
Paul Ollivier
Père La Tulipe
Known for
À Nous la Liberté
Under the Roofs of Paris
Vanda Gréville
Vanda
Also in
The Train of Suicides
A Gentleman of Paris
Constantin Siroesco
Ambrosio Sopranelli
Also in
La Margoton du bataillon
Raymond Cordy
Le chauffeur de taxi
Known for
À Nous la Liberté
The Beauty of the Devil
Odette Talazac
La cantatrice
Known for
The Blood of a Poet
The Rules of the Game
Pedro Elviro
Le régisseur (as Pitouto)
Known for
One Day with the Devil
Jane Pierson
L'épicière
Known for
La Chienne
André Michaud
Le boucher
Known for
À Nous la Liberté
Eugène Stuber
Le policier
Known for
À Nous la Liberté
René Clair Director · Georges Berr Author Marcel Guillemaud Author
United States release May 20, 1931 · Produced in France · Production Films Sonores Tobis
Production
Société des films sonores Tobis
Production
Films Sonores Tobis
Production
France
Produced in
Languages
Original language
French
Spoken on screen
French
Release dates
Portugal · February 4, 1931
Theatrical
France · April 3, 1931
Theatrical
United States · May 20, 1931
Theatrical
France
March 5, 2024 · Physical · DVD & Blu-Ray
Japan
September 29, 1931 · Theatrical
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