If I Had a Million
1932 · Movie · 88 min · ★ 6.6 · 74% critics
An ailing tycoon, fed up with the people around him, decides to hand out huge checks to strangers picked at random. The film follows a series of short, connected stories showing how sudden wealth can bring comedy, irony, warmth, and a few darker turns.
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Details
- Years
- 1932
- Release date
- 1932-11-18
- Language
- English
- Runtime
- 88 min
- Critic score
- 74/100
- TMDB rating
- 6.6/10 (47 votes)
About
You’ll likely enjoy this if you like old Hollywood anthologies with a mix of humor, irony, and sentiment, somewhat in the spirit of Merrily We Live; Not for you if you want one continuous story or a consistent tone.
Pros: inventive premise; varied comic-dramatic mix; memorable anthology format | Cons: uneven segments; shifting tone; some stories feel slight
Themes
- tycoon
- pre-code
- road hog
- condemned man
Cast & crew
Gary Cooper
as Steve Gallagher
Charles Laughton
as Phineas V. Lambert
George Raft
as Eddie Jackson
Jack Oakie
as Private Mulligan
Richard Bennett
as John Glidden
Charles Ruggles
as Henry Peabody
Alison Skipworth
as Emily La Rue
W.C. Fields
as Rollo La Rue
Mary Boland
as Mrs. Peabody
Roscoe Karns
as Private O'Brien
Directed by Ernst Lubitsch, Norman Z. McLeod, H. Bruce Humberstone +5 more