If I Had a Million

If I Had a Million (1932)

YOU'VE OFTEN SAID IT! NOW SEE WHAT HAPPENS!

An elderly business tycoon, believed to be dying, decides to give a million dollars each to eight strangers chosen at random from the phone directory.

Date of release
1932-11-18
TMDB
6.5 / 10 (51)
Runtime
1h 28m
Genres
Drama, Comedy
Director
Ernst Lubitsch, Norman Z. McLeod, H. Bruce Humberstone, Stephen Roberts, William A. Seiter, Norman Taurog, James Cruze

Casting

Interesting facts

If I Had a Million is a 1932 American pre-Code Paramount Studios anthology film starring Gary Cooper, George Raft, Charles Laughton, W. C. Fields, Jack Oakie, Frances Dee and Charlie Ruggles, among others. There were seven directors: Ernst Lubitsch, Norman Taurog, Stephen Roberts, Norman Z. McLeod, James Cruze, William A. Seiter, and H. Bruce Humberstone. Lubitsch, Cruze, Seiter, and Humberstone were each responsible for a single vignette, Roberts and McLeod directed two each, and Taurog was in charge of the prologue and epilogue. The screenplays were scripted by many different writers, with Joseph L. Mankiewicz making a large contribution.

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