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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
Le Million: Directed by René Clair. With Annabella, René Lefèvre, Jean-Louis Allibert, Paul Ollivier. An impoverished painter and his rival engage in a race across Paris to recover a jacket concealing a winning lottery ticket.
Le million. An impoverished artist discovers he has purchased a winning lottery ticket at the very moment his creditors come to collect. The only problem is, the ticket is in the pocket of his coat. . . which he left at his girlfriend’s apartment. . . who gave the coat to a man hiding from the police. . . who sells the coat to an opera singer ...
Debt-ridden painter Michel (René Lefèvre) is overcome with joy at discovering that he has just won 1 million florins in the Dutch lottery, but almost immediately, he...
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.
Directed by René Clair • 1931 • France. Starring Annabella, René Lefèvre, Louis Allibert. An impoverished artist discovers he has purchased a winning lottery ticket at the very moment his creditors come to collect.
By turns charming and inventive, René Clair’s lyrical masterpiece about the journey of a winning lottery ticket had a profound impact on not only the Marx Brothers and Charlie Chaplin, but on the American musical as a whole.
