
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.
Cast

Gary Cooper
Steve Gallagher

Charles Laughton
Phineas V. Lambert

George Raft
Eddie Jackson

Jack Oakie
Private Mulligan

Richard Bennett
John Glidden

Charles Ruggles
Henry Peabody

Alison Skipworth
Emily La Rue

W.C. Fields
Rollo La Rue

Mary Boland
Mrs. Peabody

Roscoe Karns
Private O'Brien

May Robson
Mrs. Mary Walker

Irving Bacon
China Shop Salesman (uncredited)

Berton Churchill
Warden (uncredited)

Joyce Compton
Marie - Waitress (uncredited)

Cecil Cunningham
Agnes - Emily's Friend (uncredited)

Frances Dee
Mary Wallace (uncredited)

Bess Flowers
China Store Customer (uncredited)

Blanche Friderici
Mrs. Garvey (uncredited)

Wynne Gibson
Violet Smith (uncredited)

Lillian Harmer
Idylwood Receptionist (uncredited)

Samuel S. Hinds
Lawyer (uncredited)

Tom Kennedy
Joe - Carnival Bouncer (uncredited)

Lucien Littlefield
Zeb - Hamburger Stand Owner (uncredited)

Grant Mitchell
Prison Priest (uncredited)

Gail Patrick
New Secretary at Idylwood (uncredited)

Tempe Pigott
Idylwood Resident (uncredited)

Gene Raymond
John Wallace (uncredited)

Tom Ricketts
Mrs. Walker's Dancing Partner at Idylwood (uncredited)

Willard Robertson
Fred - Glidden Associate (uncredited)

Clarence Muse
Death Row Singing Prisoner (uncredited)

Hooper Atchley
Hotel Desk Clerk (uncredited)

Eddie Baker
Second Desk Clerk (uncredited)

Reginald Barlow
Otto K. Bullwinkle (uncredited)
Ada Beecher
Idylwood Resident (uncredited)
Vangie Beilby
Idylwood Resident (uncredited)

Clara T. Bracy
Idylwood Resident (uncredited)

Harry C. Bradley
Uniformed Bank Guard (uncredited)

Bob Burns
Marine Sergeant (uncredited)

James P. Burtis
Marine Jailer (uncredited)

James Bush
Bowen - Teller at Second Bank (uncredited)

Billy Butts
Newsboy in Bank (uncredited)
A.S. Byron
Murphy's Beds Proprietor (uncredited)

Wallis Clark
Mr. Monroe - Bank Executive (uncredited)

Lester Dorr
Pedestrian at Accident (uncredited)

James Durkin
Glidden Associate (uncredited)
Edith Ellison
Idylwood Resident (uncredited)

Effie Ellsler
Mrs. Scott - Idylwood Resident (uncredited)

Louise Emmons
Idylwood Resident (uncredited)

Margaret Fealy
Idylwood Resident (uncredited)
Harry Forsman
Secondary Role (uncredited)

Frank Hagney
Mike - Carnival Bouncer (uncredited)
Hallene Hill
Idylwood Resident (uncredited)
Fred Holmes
China Shop Clerk (uncredited)

Robert Homans
Detective (uncredited)

Lew Kelly
Prison Barber (uncredited)

Fred Kelsey
Prison Jailer (uncredited)

Lydia Knott
Idylwood Resident (uncredited)

Ruby Lafayette
Idylwood Resident (uncredited)

Marc Lawrence
Henchman of Mike the Gangster (uncredited)

Edward LeSaint
Mr. Brown (uncredited)

Ida Lewis
Mrs. Davis - Idylwood Resident (uncredited)

Margaret Mann
Idylwood Resident (uncredited)
Charles McMurphy
Mike - Bank Plainclothesman (uncredited)
Frances Moffett
Glidden's Secretary (uncredited)

William V. Mong
Harry - Jackson's Fence (uncredited)

Gertrude Norman
Idylwood Resident (uncredited)
Barbara Norton
Idylwood Resident (uncredited)

Walter Percival
Carnival Concessionaire (uncredited)
Mildred Pitts
Idylwood Resident (uncredited)

Russ Powell
Bartender at Violet's Hangout (uncredited)

Dewey Robinson
Papadopoulos - Idylwood Cook (uncredited)

Fred Santley
Marvin - Glidden Assistant (uncredited)

Syd Saylor
Driver (uncredited)

Margaret Seddon
Mrs. Small - Idylwood Resident (uncredited)
Cora Shannon
Idylwood Resident (uncredited)
Alice H. Smith
Idylwood Resident (uncredited)

John St. Polis
Glidden Associate (uncredited)

Edwin Stanley
Mr. Galloway - Bank Manager (uncredited)

Larry Steers
Glidden Associate (uncredited)

Frederick Sullivan
Glidden Associate (uncredited)
Emma Tansey
Idylwood Resident (uncredited)

Kent Taylor
Bank Teller (uncredited)

Jerry Tucker
Crying Boy with Balloon (uncredited)

Morgan Wallace
Mike - Jackson's Gangster Friend (uncredited)

Mai Wells
Idylwood Resident (uncredited)
Joy Winthrop
Idylwood Resident (uncredited)

Edith Yorke
Idylwood Resident with Parkinson's Disease (uncredited)
Crew

H. Bruce Humberstone
Director

Norman Z. McLeod
Director

Norman Taurog
Director

Ernst Lubitsch
Director, Writer, Production Supervisor

William A. Seiter
Director

James Cruze
Director
Stephen Roberts
Director

Lothar Mendes
Director
William Slavens McNutt
Writer, Adaptation
Malcolm Stuart Boylan
Writer
John Bright
Writer
Oliver H.P. Garrett
Writer
Claude Binyon
Writer
Isabel Dawn
Writer
Harvey Gates
Writer
Lester Cole
Writer
Lawton Mackall
Writer
Sidney Buchman
Writer
Boyce DeGaw
Writer

Joseph L. Mankiewicz
Writer, Adaptation, Story
Whitney Bolton
Writer
Robert Sparks
Writer, Story

Grover Jones
Adaptation
LeRoy Stone
Editor

Edward Dmytryk
Assistant Editor

Alvin Wyckoff
Director of Photography
Harry Fischbeck
Director of Photography
Charles Schoenbaum
Director of Photography
Gilbert Warrenton
Director of Photography
William J. Scully
Assistant Director
Arthur Jacobson
Assistant Director
Paul Jones
Assistant Director
Emanuel Cohen
Executive Producer
Benjamin Glazer
Associate Producer
Louis D. Lighton
Associate Producer
Cliff Shirpser
Assistant Camera

George T. Clemens
Second Assistant Camera
Frank Titus
Second Assistant Camera
Fred A. Datig
Casting
Philip Wisdom
Sound Recordist
Frank Grenzback
Sound Recordist

John Leipold
Original Music Composer
Bernhard Kaun
Additional Music
Ernest Johnson
Props
Lou Asher
Props
Harold Schwartz
Unit Manager
Robert Hardy Andrews
Original Story
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