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An impoverished painter and his rival engage in a race across Paris to recover a jacket concealing a winning lottery ticket.An impoverished painter and his rival engage in a race across Paris to recover a jacket concealing a winning lottery ticket.An impoverished painter and his rival engage in a race across Paris to recover a jacket concealing a winning lottery ticket.
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Jean-Louis Allibert
- Prosper
- (as Louis Allibert)
Pedro Elviro
- Le régisseur
- (as Pitouto)
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- TriviaPauline Kael, the eminent film critic for The New Yorker, lavished praise on the film, calling it "René Clair at his exquisite best; no one else has ever been able to make a comedy move with such delicate, dreamlike inevitability [...] This movie is lyrical, choreographic, giddy--it's the best French musical of its period."
- Quotes
Vanda: That girl seemed annoyed. Is she your girlfriend?
Michel Bouflette: No. No, she's a neighbor. She's a dancer. She's quite nice. But she didn't know I was doing your portrait. It surprised her.
Vanda: You're probably wooing her.
Michel Bouflette: No, no, no. Not at all. We're just sort of engaged.
- ConnectionsFeatured in Fejezetek a film történetéböl: A francia lírai realizmus (1989)
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Delightful Rene Clair musical
"Le Million" is a 1931 musical directed by Rene Clair. It's wonderful that it's available on DVD for audiences to see and enjoy it. The story concerns a starving Parisian artist Michele (Rene Lefevre) who is having a bad day. He is being hounded by every creditor in town, and as his fiancé Beatrice (Annabella) walks into his apartment, he is embracing his model. Then he realizes that he has won the Dutch lottery with his friend Prosper (Jean-Louis Allibert), but the ticket is in his coat pocket, and the coat is gone. The city-wide hunt then begins for the coat, which was taken by Beatrice and given to a needy person, who sold it to the opera singer Sopranelli. There is a hilarious scene in Sopranelli's dressing room as various people try to get the ticket out of the coat pocket. Beatrice and Michele wind up behind some scenery on the opera stage and relate to the duet that's being sung.
This film and Clair obviously influenced such talents as the Marx Brothers, Ernst Lubitsch, and Rouben Mamoulian. All the performances are good, with the beautiful Annabella, a brunette here, a standout as the ballerina Beatrice. Annabella was signed by 20th Century Fox and brought over to America around 1938, made Suez with Tyrone Power, and the two fell in love and decided to get married. In order to dissuade her and his biggest star from marrying, Zanuck offered her several films in Europe, but she refused to leave her fiancée. Zanuck made sure she didn't work much after that, effectively blacklisting her. She had a big Broadway success, worked on behalf of the troops during World War II, and returned to France after her divorce from Power. She retired in 1954. Her radio work with Power, and this film, show what a wonderful actress she was.
Very good film - highly recommended.
This film and Clair obviously influenced such talents as the Marx Brothers, Ernst Lubitsch, and Rouben Mamoulian. All the performances are good, with the beautiful Annabella, a brunette here, a standout as the ballerina Beatrice. Annabella was signed by 20th Century Fox and brought over to America around 1938, made Suez with Tyrone Power, and the two fell in love and decided to get married. In order to dissuade her and his biggest star from marrying, Zanuck offered her several films in Europe, but she refused to leave her fiancée. Zanuck made sure she didn't work much after that, effectively blacklisting her. She had a big Broadway success, worked on behalf of the troops during World War II, and returned to France after her divorce from Power. She retired in 1954. Her radio work with Power, and this film, show what a wonderful actress she was.
Very good film - highly recommended.
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- Runtime1 hour 31 minutes
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- 1.19 : 1
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