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69% Critic Match
Le Million
“You MUST see it to know how indescribably clever and enormously "smart" a movie CAN be!”
6.9 / 10• 1931• 1h 23m•PG• French
ComedyMusic
Storyline
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.
Cast & Crew
René Lefèvre
Michel Bouflette
Lead
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
What People Are Saying
4.0
“A staggering achievement of craft and ambition. René Clair's vision lands with breathtaking precision.”
3.0
“Every frame feels alive. Le Million is the rare release that takes its audience seriously.”
