I'll Give a Million (1938 film)

I'll Give a Million
Directed by	Walter Lang
Produced by	Darryl F. Zanuck
Written by	Boris Ingster Milton Sperling
Story by	Giaci Mondaini Cesare Zavattini
Starring	Marjorie Weaver Warner Baxter Peter Lorre
Music by	Cyril Mockridge
Cinematography	Lucien N. Andriot
Edited by	Louis R. Loeffler
Distributed by	Twentieth Century Fox
Release dates	July 22, 1938
Running time	70 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English

I'll Give a Million is a 1938 American drama film directed by Walter Lang.^[1]

Plot

Louie, a tramp (Peter Lorre) saved from suicide. A bet. And a million to be given to a tramp. So, a lot of tramps try to get the million, and under all of them there is the millionaire Tony Newlander (Warner Baxter), that wanted to give away the million. A woman is always involved. So Jean Hofmann (Marjorie Weaver) is finally asked to marry Newlander. And he puts it as a condition: if she marries him, he donates the Million to the poor of the city. During the ceremony, where rich and poor are sitting together, some of them are strangely scratching themselves.

Cast

• Warner Baxter as Tony Newlander
• Marjorie Weaver as Jean Hofmann
• Peter Lorre as Louie 'The Dope' Monteau
• Jean Hersholt as Victor
• John Carradine as Kopelpeck
• J. Edward Bromberg as Editor
• Lynn Bari as Cecelia
• Fritz Feld as Max Primerose
• Sig Ruman as Anatole Primerose
• Christian Rub as Commissionaire

See also

• Darò un milione (1936)

References

1. "I'll Give a Million". New York Times. Retrieved December 22, 2014.

External links

• I'll Give a Million at the Internet Movie Database