Le Million

Le Million
Theatrical release poster
Directed by	René Clair
Written by	Play: Georges Berr Marcel Guillemand Screenplay: René Clair
Starring	Annabella René Lefèvre Jean-Louis Allibert Paul Ollivier
Music by	Armand Bernard Philippe Parès Georges Van Parys
Cinematography	Georges Périnal Georges Raulet
Distributed by	Films Sonores Tobis
Release date(s)	15 April 1931 (1931-04-15)
Running time	83 minutes
Country	France
Language	French

Le Million is a 1931 French musical comedy film directed by René Clair. The story was adapted by Clair from a play by Georges Berr and Marcel Guillemand.

Plot

While being hounded by creditors, a debt-ridden artist discovers he has just won a lottery worth a million Dutch florins. Realizing that he has left the ticket in the pocket of his jacket, he attempts to retrieve it but discovers that his fianncé Beatrice has given away the jacket to a criminal in order to elude the police. He and his rival race to retrace the jacket which has passed to a brigand nicknamed "Grandpa Tulip" and then to a tenor singing "Les Bohémiens" at the opera theater that night.

Michel, arriving at the theater following a stint at the local jail, and Beatrice engage in a madcap chase through the theater as they endeavor to regain the ticket; during the chase the jacket flies out the window onto the top of a car. Fearing he has lost the ticket for good, Michel gets into the taxi of one of his creditors, only to find the sleeve of the jacket hanging in front of the window. After stopping the cab to remove the jacket from the top of the car, his attempt to search for the ticket in the pocket is thwarted by associates of Grandpa Tulip, who force him to hand over the jacket. Leaving dejected, he returns to his apartment to find his creditors in good spirits, as they think that they will be repaid. Before he gives them the bad news, Tulip enters the apartment with a jacket. Thinking that this is his original jacket, Michel searches the pockets. Finding them empty, he tells Tulip that he actually wanted a ticket in the pocket, which Tulip subsequently produces, having taken it out of the jacket before giving it away.

Cast (in credits order)

• Annabella as Beatrice
• Rene Lefevre as Michel Bouflette
• Jean-Louis Allibert as Prosper
• Paul Ollivier as Granpere Tulipe
• Constantin Siroesco as Ambrosio Sopranelli
• Raymond Cordy as Le Chauffeur De Taxi
• Vanda Greville as Vanda
• Odette Talazac as La Cantatrice
• Pedro Elviro as Le Regisseur
• Jane Pierson as L'Epiciere
• Andre Michaud as Le Boucher
• Eugene Stuber as Le Policier
• Pierre Alcover as Le Policier
• Armand Bernard as Le Chef D'Orchestre
• Gabrielle Rosny
• Georgette Dalmas
• Jean Gaubens
• Teddy Michaud
• Louis Musy
• Louis Pre Fils
• Georges Zwingel
• Edouard Francomme
• Franck Maurice
• Henri Kerny
• Gustave Huberdeau
• Allan Durant

External links

• Le Million at AllRovi
• Le Million at the Internet Movie Database
• Le Million at Rotten Tomatoes