If I Had a Million (1932)
YOU'VE OFTEN SAID IT! NOW SEE WHAT HAPPENS!
Gênero : Drama, Comédia
Runtime : 1H 28M
Director : James Cruze, H. Bruce Humberstone, Ernst Lubitsch, Norman Z. McLeod, William A. Seiter, Norman Taurog, Stephen Roberts
Sinopse
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.
The south sea island Tonga is full of plantations and scoundrels. Ellen Bradford arrives expecting marriage to respectable and successful plantation owner only to find he is a drunk and gambler. Being the only white woman she is the desire of scoundrels and cut-throats.
Henry é um oficial americano que, durante as batalhas da Primeira Guerra, é ferido em ação. Ele, então, recebe cuidados de uma enfermeira britânica e acaba apaixonando-se por ela. Para viver este amor, eles fogem dos horrores da guerra.
Chicago, 1909. Dois garotos, Tom Powers e Matt Doyle, que são bem amigos, crescem numa área pobre da cidade. Eles frequentam salões de sinuca e fazem pequenos furtos, que são vendidos para o receptador de 3ª categoria Putty Nose. Em 1915 os dois amigos estão se tornado jovens homens, que de dia fazem entregas e à noite planejam roubos com Putty Nose, que lhes dá revólveres e dicas para o 1º grande golpe deles. Porém as coisas não saem como o planejado e, apesar de Tom e Matt conseguirem escapar, um cúmplice deles é morto e Putty Nose, que prometeu protegê-los, deixa a cidade. Em 1920 eles fazem amizade com Paddy Ryan, que lhes diz que a chegada da Lei Seca fará com que ganhem muito dinheiro vendendo bebida. Realmente em pouco tempo Tom e Matt ganham o bastante para frequentar os melhores lugares, usarem roupas finas e carros luxuosos, mas para manter este padrão de vida o preço é às vezes muito alto.
Os irmãos Monte e Ray deixam Oxford para se juntar ao Royal Flying Corps. Ray ama Helen e Helen gosta de se divertir com Monte. Antes de saírem em missão na Alemanha, encontram-na nos braços de outro homem.
Para escaparem à monotonia da vida numa cidade pequena, Frank (Jason Lee) e Eddie (Crispin Glover) engendram uma ideia estouvada a seguir à outra. Guardando a melhor para o fim, decidem fazer uma “parceria” com uma defunta milionária (Melissa Keller) num esquema de chantagem que, caso seja bem sucedido, lhes vai render o suficiente para saldarem a dívida com o anterior parceiro… o que os quer ver mortos!
A circus performer falls in love with the son of a plantation owner in antebellum New Orleans. When the young man's stepmother objects to the wedding, the couple break apart and go their separate ways for a time. Also in the mix are two circus comics who feud over the heart of another Southern belle.
After a road accident in Hungary, the American honeymooners Joan and Peter and the enigmatic Dr. Werdegast find refuge in the house of the famed architect Hjalmar Poelzig, who shares a dark past with the doctor.
A condemned murderer, in the process of being executed, relives the events that led to his being sentenced to die in the electric chair. Told in flashback, we witness a sleazy dancehall girl (Vivienne Osborne) dupe a high rise riveter (Edward G. Robinson) into marriage so she can live off of him. But when he loses his job and his marbles, she ends up supporting him with money from her side man--and misses no opportunity to rub it in Robinson's face that she's now supporting him in his emasculated state. As the animosity grows and things get more and more unbearable for Robinson, he is eventually driven to desperate measures.
James Parker (C. Aubrey Smith) e Harry Holt (Neil Hamilton) encontram-se numa expedição, na África, à procura de um cemitério de elefantes onde pretendem encontrar bastante marfim, o suficiente para se tornarem ricos. A bela e jovem filha de Parker, Jane (Maureen O'Sullivan), chega, de surpresa, ávida para vivenciar o exotismo do Continente Negro, e se junta ao grupo. Harry sente-se atraído pela jovem mas, quando o safári é emboscado por nativos hostis, ela termina sendo sequestrada por Tarzan (Johnny Weissmuller), que a leva para sua casa no alto de uma árvore. Lá, ela se apaixona pelo Homem das Selvas.
Infamous burglar "The Bat" commits a daring jewelry theft despite heavy police presence. Soon after, a bank theft occurs, which may be the work of the criminal as well. Meanwhile, Cornelia Van Gorder has various people arrive at her old mansion, including her niece, Dale, a bank employee, and police detective Anderson. When guests start turning up dead, Cornelia begins to suspect that The Bat may be lurking around the estate.
Dale Jordan is first accepted by the aristocratic first-cabin passengers on a south-bound Panama-Pacific liner until they discover she is a member of a troupe of cabaret girls led by Trixie Snell en route for the Bull Ring Cabaret in Panama City.
Lee is a fresh young kid from the South when he gets a job with The Press. His first assignment on gangsters gets his name in the paper, the police on a raid and Lee in the hospital.
Dee is a naive chorus girl living in a boarding house full of low-paid actors. Dee and Billy are in love and he helps her to move from chorus girl to star. Things run afoul when jealousy, misunderstandings and sleazy men enter the picture.
Two flappers try to get their newspaper reporter boyfriends to pay attention to them.
The lives of the residents of a Manhattan apartment building are intertwined with the actions of a crooked investor.
A trio of veteran pilots joins an aerial circus.
Wilkie and Mitchell, trying to desert their draft into the army, stow away on a ship which takes them into the war zone. While AWOL, the rivals for Mary's affections accidently destroy an ammunition dump.
Margot Rande, a basically decent woman, is led down the path to perdition by her bank robber husband.
Too bad for presidential hopes of banker T.K. Blair; his party feels he has too little flair for savoir faire. But at a medicine show, the party bosses find Blair's double: huckster Doc Varney. Of course, they scheme to make Varney T.K.'s public spokesman; at first, he even fools Blair's girlfriend Felicia, providing a romantic complication. As election eve approaches, the conspirators face the problem of what to do with Varney...who has difficult decisions of his own to make.
An honest and naive schoolteacher gets a lesson in how the world works outside the classroom, when a rich Baron and his mistress use the teacher's name and outstanding reputation in a crooked business scheme.