Brewster's Millions (1935 film)

Brewster's Millions is a 1935 British musical comedy film directed by Thornton Freeland and starring Jack Buchanan, Lili Damita and Nancy O'Neil.

The New York Times wrote, "Take an inventive young man who is required to spend a quarter of a million dollars in six months, and you possess the germ of a successful farce.

Instead of telling the story in the swift and eventful terms of screen comedy, the present gentlemen have used it simply as the libretto for a big, eye-filling musical photoplay in the combustible Hollywood style.

Those song-and-dance interludes during which Mr. Buchanan abandons his money-spending campaign are useful chiefly to remind the audience that Brewster's Millions is still a sufficiently sturdy comedy to stand on its own feet.

When the piece is being played straight, it is always bright and amusing in a slightly desperate British style... Mr. Buchanan is an engagingly frantic Brewster and he is assisted pleasantly enough by Lili Damita as the malicious chorus girl who wants to snare him and by Nancy O'Neil as his conservative sweetheart.