The Case of the Three Million
About The Case of the Three Million
Banker Ornano is stuck holding three million from a weekend house sale, and a note from his wife Noris naming the money falls to thief Cascarilla. Small burglar Tapioca breaks in the same night, the police take him, and Cascarilla escapes. At the trial Cascarilla throws counterfeit bills into court, slips Tapioca out, and splits the stolen money. Yakov Protazanov directed.
Cast & crew
More about The Case of the Three Million
Protazanov wrote it from Umberto Notari's play The Three Thieves, and Pyotr Yermolov photographed the silent comedy. Wikidata lists 63 minutes and the year 1926, and the United States title was Three Thieves. Igor Ilyinsky plays Tapioca and Anatoli Ktorov plays Cascarilla.
Themes
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Pyotr Yermolov photographed Protazanov's comedy.
Notes
- Mikhail Klimov plays Ornano and Olga Zhizneva plays Noris.
- The money is in rubles in the English plot, though the setting is Italy.
- Jay Leyda's Kino (1960) is cited on the English page.
- A 1957 Russian collection, Yakov Protazanov, is also in the bibliography.
Scenes
- Cascarilla flings counterfeit money across the courtroom and walks Tapioca out in the scramble.
Influenced by
- Umberto Notari's play The Three Thieves
Also available
- Wikimedia Commons (The Three Million Trial (1926).webm)
