The Last Billionaire
1934 film by René Clair
- 17 October 1934 (1934-10-17)
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The Last Billionaire (French: Le dernier milliardaire) is a 1934 French comedy film directed by René Clair and starring Max Dearly, Marthe Mellot and Renée Saint-Cyr.[1] The film is based on a fictional small European kingdom which is on the verge of going broke.
It was shot at the Joinville Studios in Paris. The film's sets were designed by the art directors Lucien Aguettand and Lucien Carré. It was the last film Clair made in France until 1947, as he moved to Britain and then the United States.
Cast
- Max Dearly as Banco
- Marthe Mellot as Queen of Casinario
- Renée Saint-Cyr as Princess Isabelle
- Jean Sinoël as Prime Minister
- Charles Redgie as Crown Prince Nicolas
- Marcel Carpentier as Detective Brown
- Paul Ollivier as Chamberlain
- Raymond Cordy as Valet
- José Noguero as Bandleader
- Raymond Aimos as Le mendiant
- Christian Argentin as Le ministre des finances
- Jean Aymé as Un ministre
- Eddy Debray as Un ministre
References
- ^ BFI.org
Bibliography
- Dudley Andrew. Mists of Regret: Culture and Sensibility in Classic French Film. Princeton University Press, 1995.
External links
- The Last Billionaire at IMDb
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Films directed by René Clair
- The Crazy Ray (1924)
- The Phantom of the Moulin Rouge (1925)
- The Imaginary Voyage (1926)
- The Prey of the Wind (1927)
- The Italian Straw Hat (1928)
- Two Timid Souls (1928)
- Under the Roofs of Paris (1930)
- Le Million (1931)
- À Nous la Liberté (1931)
- Bastille Day (1933)
- The Last Billionaire (1934)
- The Ghost Goes West (1935)
- Break the News (1938)
- The Flame of New Orleans (1941)
- I Married a Witch (1942)
- It Happened Tomorrow (1944)
- And Then There Were None (1945)
- Man About Town (1947)
- Beauty and the Devil (1950)
- Beauties of the Night (1952)
- The Grand Maneuver (1955)
- Gates of Paris (1957)
- All the Gold in the World (1961)
- The Lace Wars (1965)
Anthologies
- Entr'acte (1924)
- Forever and a Day (1943, segment "1897")
- Three Fables of Love (1962, segment "Les Deux Pigeons")
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