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Le Million

Original movie 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) April 15, 1931 (France)
May 21 (US)
Running time 83 minutes
Country France
Language French

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

A debt-ridden artist has just won a lottery worth a million Dutch florins, but lost the ticket in a jacket. His rival and him race to retrace the jacket which had gone to a brigand nicknamed "Grandpa Tulip" and then subsequently a tenor singing La Bohème at the opera theater that night.

Cast

  • Annabella — Béatrice
  • René Lefèvre — Michel Bouflette
  • Jean-Louis Allibert — Prosper (as Louis Allibert)
  • Paul Ollivier — Granpère Tulipe
  • Constantin Siroesco — Ambrosio Sopranelli
  • Raymond Cordy — Le chauffeur de taxi
  • Vanda Gréville — Vanda

External links

René Clair
Feature films
Le Fantôme du Moulin-Rouge (1925) • Le Voyage imaginaire (1926) • La Proie du vent (1927) • Un chapeau de paille d'Italie (1928) • Les Deux timides (1928) • Sous les toits de Paris (1930) • Le Million (1931) • À nous la liberté (1931) • Quatorze Juillet (1932) • The Ghost Goes West (1935) • Break The News (1938) • The Flame of New Orleans (1941) • I Married a Witch (1942) • It Happened Tomorrow (1944) • And Then There Were None (1945) • Le Silence est d'or (1947) • La Beauté du diable (1950) • Les Belles de nuit (1952) • Les Grandes Manoeuvres (1955) • Porte des Lilas (1957) • Tout l'or du monde (1961) • Les Fêtes galantes (1965)
Short films
Entr'acte (1924) • Paris qui dort (1924, a/k/a The Crazy Ray) • La Tour (1928) • Forever and a Day (1943, segment "1897") • La Française et l'amour (1960, segment "Le Mariage") • Les Quatre vérités (1962, segment "Les Deux Pigeons")
Television
Les Fables de La Fontaine (1949, episode "?")







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