Kid Millions

Infobox Film
name = Kid Millions


caption = Kid Millions DVD cover
writer = Nunnally Johnson
Nat Perrin
starring = Eddie Cantor
Ann Sothern
Ethel Merman
George Murphy
director = Roy Del Ruth
producer = Samuel Goldwyn
distributor = United Artists
released = December 28 1934 (USA)
country = USA
runtime = 90 min.
language = English
imdb_id = 0025347
budget =

Kid Millions is a 1934 American film directed by Roy Del Ruth.

Plot details

The story features Eddie, a kid from Brooklyn, New York City, United States who suddenly inherits $77 million dollars from his lost father, an archeologist that had looted Egypt of its treaures. In order to reclaim the inheritance, Eddie begins his boat ride to Egypt. However, on the boat he meets various characters who claim also to receive a part of the inheritance, though their stories are doubtful. Later on, Eddie learns that the Sheik Mulhulla has threatened to kill anyone who tries to claim the treasure, and that Princess Fanya has fallen deeply in love with Eddie and wants Eddie's hand in marriage.

Cast

*Eddie Cantor
*Ann Sothern
*Ethel Merman
*George Murphy
*Berton Churchill
*Warren Hymer
*Paul Harvey
*Jesse Block
*Eve Sully
*Otto Hoffman
*Stanley Fields
*Edgar Kennedy
*Jack Kennedy
*John Kelly
*Doris Davenport

Production notes

*The film's "ice cream fantasy sequence" was Samuel Goldwyn's first attempt at film with three-strip Technicolor. The cast of "Our Gang" appear among the children in this sequence.
*The song "Mandy", which Eddie Cantor would later on be famous for, was from the 1918 musical Yip Yip Yaphank created by Irving Berlin.
*Among the Goldwyn Girls are Lucille Ball and Paulette Goddard.

External links

* [http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/kid_millions/ Rotten Tomatoes]
*imdb title | id=0025347 | title=Kid Millions