Pauline Kael, the eminent film critic for The New Yorker, lavished praise on the film, calling it "René Clair at his exquisite best; no one else has ever been able to make a comedy move with such delicate, dreamlike inevitability [...] This movie is lyrical, choreographic, giddy--it's the best French musical of its period."
"Le Million" was director René Clair's second sound film. He had initially been skeptical about the introduction of sound to motion pictures and detested the slavish devotion to dialogue on display in most early sound films (at one point calling sound "an unnatural creation, just useful for canned theater"), but his stance softened when he realized how sound could be used as a counterpoint to image; an example of this in "Le Million" is the scene in which Clair used sounds from a football game to accompany footage of various characters fighting over a jacket.
This film has a 100 percent rating based on seven critic reviews on Rotten Tomatoes.
This film is part of the Criterion Collection, spine #72.