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Le Million is a french film of genre Comedy directed by René Clair released in USA on 20 may 1931 with Annabella
Le Million (1931)
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Add to a movie listLe 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.
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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 fiancée 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.Actors
Annabella
(Béatrice)
René Lefèvre
(Michel Bouflette)
Jean-Louis Allibert
(Prosper)
Paul Ollivier
(Père La Tulipe)
Raymond Cordy
(Le chauffeur de taxi)
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