A dying tycoon gives million-dollar windfalls to eight people picked from the city directory.
Episodic film showing what various people would do if they got a million dollars.
Directors:
James Cruze (segment "Death Cell")
H. Bruce Humberstone (segment "The Forger")
Ernst Lubitsch (segment "The Clerk")
Norman Z. McLeod (segments "China Shop" and "Road Hogs")
Stephen Roberts (segments "Violet" and "Grandma")
William A. Seiter (segment "The Three Marines")
Norman Taurog (segments "Prologue" and "Epilogue")
Lothar Mendes (uncredited)
Here's the Lubitsch-Laughton episode.
classic..pure..classic! =0]
tornmask 9 months ago
Wonderful! They shot two versions of this scene, incidentally. This is the US version but in the British version Laughton gives his boss a 2-fingered V-sign instead of a raspberry!
adam28xx 2 years ago