Wenn ich eine Million hätte

Originaltitel: If I Had a Million

1932
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1 Std. 28 Min.

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Füge eine Handlung in deiner Sprache hinzuA dying tycoon gives million-dollar windfalls to eight people picked from the city directory.A dying tycoon gives million-dollar windfalls to eight people picked from the city directory.A dying tycoon gives million-dollar windfalls to eight people picked from the city directory.

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Gary Cooper

Steve Gallagher

Charles Laughton

Phineas V. Lambert

W.C. Fields

Rollo La Rue

George Raft

Eddie Jackson

Jack Oakie

Private Mulligan

Richard Bennett

John Glidden

Charles Ruggles

Henry Peabody
(as Charlie Ruggles)

Alison Skipworth

Emily La Rue

Mary Boland

Mrs. Peabody

Roscoe Karns

Private O'Brien

May Robson

Mrs. Mary Walker

Hooper Atchley

Hotel Desk Clerk
(Nicht genannt)

Irving Bacon

China Shop Salesman
(Nicht genannt)

Eddie Baker

Second Desk Clerk
(Nicht genannt)

Reginald Barlow

Otto K. Bullwinkle
(Nicht genannt)

Ada Beecher

Idylwood Resident
(Nicht genannt)

Vangie Beilby

Idylwood Resident
(Nicht genannt)

Clara T. Bracy

Idylwood Resident
(Nicht genannt)

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Three sequences intended for the movie were not in the final print: "The Pheeneys" with Cary Grant, Richard Arlen and Miriam Hopkins, "The Man Who Drops Dead" by Oliver H.P. Garrett, directed by Thornton Freeland with Tallulah Bankhead, and Clive Brook, and "The Randall Marshalls" with Sylvia Sidney, Carole Lombard, Randolph Scott and Fredric March, and directed by Lothar Mendes. It is not known if the first two segments were filmed and dropped or simply not filmed. The last sequence was partially filmed, but dropped because March would not participate in retakes without salary.

Patzer
Discovering he's about to die, millionaire Glidden decides to leave his money to names he's randomly selected from the phone book. But when first name he chooses turns out to be John D. Rockefeller, he flips a few pages further into directory and selects someone named Peabody - a name that would actually have appeared in the book before Rockefeller.

Zitate
Mrs. Mary Walker: There ain't any jail of steel or stone that can hold a body prisoner as tight as one built of old age... and lack of money.

Alternative Versionen
Some local censors deleted objectionable scenes in the "Violet" and "Death Cell" segments. In "Violet," when she throws off the covers and removes her stockings, and in "Death Cell," the preparation for execution and the opening of the door to the execution chamber.

Verbindungen
Featured in Tôkyô no onna (1933)

Soundtracks
(I'll Be Glad When You're Dead) You Rascal You
(1931) (uncredited)
Written by Spo-De-Odee
Sung by an unidentified male voice on a record

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7/10

Enjoyable grab bag of comic and dramatic tales

Mr. Glidden, millionaire, is dying. Everyone wonders who will get his money. His relatives hang around the mansion but he keeps changing his will. "I'm dying," he complains, "and I don't know of one man in all the thousands that I employ that's fit to leave in charge of a peanut stand."

So he comes up with a great idea: picking people out of the phone book and giving them $1,000,000 each—thus introducing an entertaining series of episodes showing various recipients and how their lives are affected.

The episodes vary in tone as well as length; overall it's a mostly lighthearted picture that doesn't overwhelm in any way but does offer a chance to see a number of Hollywood stars and character actors in unique roles:

W.C. Fields and Alison Skipworth have trouble with a road hog; Charlie Ruggles has a ball smashing up a china shop; Charles Laughton gives his boss the raspberry. Wynne Gibson is memorable in one poignant story as a rescued dance hall girl who climbs into a fancy hotel bed and tosses the second pillow into a closet.

The final story features May Robson trapped in a home for elderly ladies. They won't let her make biscuits, won't allow card playingthey won't even let her have a kitten because cats are disease carriers. ("Disease carriers, then why ain't I dead?" Robson retorts. "I've had cats all my life.") It's all pretty melodramatic but made worthwhile by the joyous transformation brought about by Mr. Glidden's gift. Robson is excellent.

Richard Bennett is energetic (especially for someone allegedly on death's door) and really quite appealing as the old Mr. Glidden. Also featured in separate stories are Gary Cooper as a Marine and George Raft as a counterfeiter.

While it's no masterpiece, it's certainly worth a look, particularly for fans of Fields and Robson.