Le Million

• 6.9 Comedy
• 1931-02-04
• 83 minutes mins

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.

Starring:

René Lefèvre (Michel Bouflette) Annabella (Béatrice) Jean-Louis Allibert (Prosper) Paul Ollivier (Père La Tulipe) Vanda Gréville (Vanda) Constantin Siroesco (Ambrosio Sopranelli) Raymond Cordy (Le chauffeur de taxi) Odette Talazac (La cantatrice) Pedro Elviro (Le régisseur (as Pitouto)) Jane Pierson (L'épicière)

Director:

René Clair

Writer:

René Clair