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Let's Make a Million (1936)
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61 min | Comedy

Let's Make a Million (1936)

Approved

61 min | Comedy

After the U.S. Senate allocates two billion dollars for veteran bonuses, Harrison Gentry, owner of Gentry Machinery and Supply Co. in Gentry, Oklahoma, plans to use his $1,100 bonus to marry his secretary and fiance of five years, Caroline...See moreAfter the U.S. Senate allocates two billion dollars for veteran bonuses, Harrison Gentry, owner of Gentry Machinery and Supply Co. in Gentry, Oklahoma, plans to use his $1,100 bonus to marry his secretary and fiance of five years, Caroline Williams. Harrison's maiden aunts, with whom he lives, however, hope to use his bonus to erect a granite shaft in honor of their father on twenty acres they purchased eleven years before as "Ezra Gentry Park." Harrison's aunts inveigle him into traveling to Kansas City to buy the slab, but the granite salesman has gone out of business. Upon returning home, Harrison, acting on a tip from his drunken sales manager, Sam Smith, buys stock from crooked oilmen Spencer and Gilbert. Harrison hopes Spencer and Gilbert will purchase equipment from his shop for a Gentry oil well, but is unaware they are being investigated for tax evasion. News of Harrison's stock purchase travels quickly around town, and soon most of Gentry's veterans have spent their bonuses on "S&G" stock. The well goes up, but after digging 6,000 feet and not hitting oil, Spencer and Gilbert dissolve their company and leave town. The stockholders, including Caroline's father, blame Harrison for their losses, and vote him out of the American Legion and boycott his store. Determined to help his friends, Harrison hires Sam's friend, geologist Cliff Spaulding of Texas, to investigate the dry well. Spaulding discovers "S&G" actually drilled only to 950 feet and suspects the property adjacent to the well, Gentry Park, is oil-filled. Harrison then contacts an old army friend who is now a detective, and he and his friends help Harrison blow up "S&G"'s safe, forcing Spencer and Gilbert to release the Gentry oil lands to him. With S and G's money, Harrison builds a new well and, after his aunts sell him Gentry Park, strikes oil. The townsmen buy stock in Harrison's new oil company and dedicate the new well by making him president of the American Legion. Harrison then once again proposes to Caroline and they kiss. See less

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15 cast members

Name	Known for
Edward Everett Horton Harrison Gentry Harrison Gentry See fewer	Arsenic and Old Lace (1944)
Charlotte Wynters Caroline Caroline See fewer	Sunset Trail (1938)
Porter Hall Spencer Spencer See fewer	Sullivan's Travels (1941)
J.M. Kerrigan Sam Smith Sam Smith See fewer	Gone with the Wind (1939)
Margaret Seddon Aunt Martha Aunt Martha See fewer	Bachelor Mother (1932)
Margaret McWade Aunt Lucy Aunt Lucy See fewer	The Lost World (1925)
Purnell Pratt Gilbert Gilbert See fewer	Scarface (1932)
Irving Bacon Jerry Jerry See fewer	Meet John Doe (1941)
Ivan Miller Peter Winton Peter Winton See fewer	The Buccaneer (1938)
Stanley Andrews Cliff Spaulding Cliff Spaulding See fewer	Road to Rio (1947)
Baldwin Cooke Farley Farley See fewer	The Pooch (1932)
Harry Bernard Frisby Frisby See fewer	The Shadow (1937)
Eddie Dunn Taggert Taggert See fewer	The Gay Falcon (1941)
Eddie Acuff Actor (uncredited) Actor (uncredited) See fewer	The Case of the Velvet Claws (1936)
Nora Cecil Actress (uncredited) Actress (uncredited) See fewer	Street Scene (1931)