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ASIAN IMPORT DVD PLAYS UK REGION 2 ; original French dialogue with English subtitles ;
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.
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René Lefèvre and Annabella are sheer delights, as is everything else in Le Million, René Clair's bright and winning early sound comedy. Clair has his actors sing their dialogue in a blithe and breezy way and utilizes a succession of surrealistic and Dadaesque touches to chronicle this lighthearted extended chase, concerning an artist racing through the streets of Paris (an amazing studio set constructed by Lazare Meerson) in order to retrieve a winning lottery ticket left in the pocket of a discarded jacket. Many of Clair's comic embellishments (like the dubbed-in sound effects of a football game over a portion of the chase) have been used endlessly in comedies ever since, but in Clair's hands, the old jokes still look fresh and magical.
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This is a film I had long wanted to revisit and after all this time it has stood up well. It was probably 25 years old when I first saw it at school so it was old-fasioned even then. It is of its period, but it is joyful and tuneful and it in no way disappointed (unlike so many other films from long ago which seemed great at the time but are awful in retrospect).
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