If I Had a Million (1932) ( If I Had a 1,000,000 )

If I Had a Million (1932) (DVD) (*)

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Original Title: If I Had a 1,000,000
Language Selections:
English ( Mono )
French ( Subtitles )

Product Origin/Format:
France ( PAL/Region 2 )

Running Time:
80 min

Aspect Ratio:
Fullscreen

Special Features:
Interactive Menu
Scene Access
Black & White

Movie filmed in 1932 and produced in:
United States ( USA, Canada )

Directed By:
James Cruze
H. Bruce Humberstone
Ernst Lubitsch

Written By:
Robert Hardy Andrews
Claude Binyon

Actors:
Gary Cooper ..... Steve Gallagher
Charles Laughton ..... Phineas V. Lambert
George Raft ..... Eddie Jackson
Jack Oakie ..... Private Mulligan
Richard Bennett ..... John Glidden
Charles Ruggles ..... Henry Peabody (as Charlie Ruggles)
Alison Skipworth ..... Emily La Rue
W.C. Fields ..... Rollo La Rue
Mary Boland ..... Mrs. Peabody
Roscoe Karns ..... Private O'Brien
May Robson ..... Mrs. Mary Walker
Wynne Gibson ..... Violet Smith
Gene Raymond ..... John Wallace
Frances Dee ..... Mary Wallace
Lucien Littlefield ..... Zeb - Hamburger Stand Owner

Synopsis:

Based on a story by Robert Andrews, If I Had a Million is a multipart comedy-drama employing Paramount's top directorial and acting talents. Refusing to leave his fortune to his grasping relatives, dying millionaire Richard Bennett selects several people at random from the phone book and bestows upon each of them a check for one million dollars. The first recipient is henpecked husband Charlie Ruggles, who cheerily enters his former place of employment, a china shop, and smashes every bit of crockery in the place.

Tycoon John Glidden, dying though still vigorous, is so dissatisfied with his relatives and associates that, rather than will his money to any of them, he decides to give it away in million-dollar amounts to strangers picked from the city directory. He picks a meek china salesman; a prostitute; a forger; two ex-vaudevilleans who hate road hogs; a condemned man; a mild-mannered clerk; a boisterous marine; and an oppressed inmate of an old ladies' home.

Wealthy John Glidden wants to give his money away to strangers rather than have his relatives fight over it. We see the effect the gifts have on many different sorts of individuals.

This product was added to our catalog on Thursday 28 March, 2019.