"Although frowned upon by the authorities as nothing more than an 'ordinary drawing room comedy,' The Case of the Three Million proved extraordinarily popular with the public when it was released in 1926. The story, set in Italy, has to do with the comic interactions of several types of crooks--a banker-speculator, a gentleman-thief, and a ragamuffin street thief--who accidentally find themselves in the same proximity to 3,000,000 rubles swindled by the banker in a land deal.... The Case of the Three Million is slightly amoral in its good-natured satire of high society decadence and inveterate thievery, (and) it remains a good example of Protazanov's skill in the comedy genre. The popular Soviet stage and screen comic, Igor Ilinsky, gave one of his inimitably eccentric performances as the petty thief." Tom Luddy, Yvette Biro