The 1931 René Clair French film Le Million translates, roughly, as The Million. (Always here to help.) It’s about a poor artist who wins a lottery for a million (Dutch florins, not dollars, but still…), and spends the rest of the movie trying to locate and retrieve the winning lottery ticket. What makes this movie such a landmark, cinematically, isn’t its plot, but Clair’s use of music and sound, at a time when The Jazz Singer broke the movie sound barrier only a few years before. René Lefèvre and Annabella co-star.