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LE MILLION 183
annoyed by the indiscriminate cutting of the work of intelligent directors; to-day we are insulted by " dubbed " versions and hybrid English translations.
The stories of all Rene Clair's films are of the simplest material, often perhaps a single situation elaborated into a succession of fast-moving incidents. He has learned the value of simple material, of course, from his long study of Chaplin and his beginner's experience of making short one-reel comedies. The plot of he Million^ when divested of its complications, may be resolved into the bare facts of a chase after an old coat containing a lottery ticket — a chase which would have been ideal for the purposes of any early Mack Sennett slapstick. But around this simple incident is built up a structure of confusions, counterchases and complications which add to the swing of the main idea.
Adapted by Clair from a popular French comedy by MM. G. Berr and M. Guillemaud, the story of he Million concerns two young artists, Michel, a painter, and Prosper, a sculptor, who share the same studio in Paris. Michel is engaged to Beatrice, a particularly attractive dancer at the Opera-Lyrique, but despite the fact that she lives opposite on the same floor, he is in the habit of entertaining other engaging young women. In the middle of one of these receptions, Michel is interrupted by the clamouring of his tradespeople, who at length have lost their patience because he will not pay his bills. They chase him up and down the block of studios, but become entangled with a posse