“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. When the film was released in New York in 1933, the official state censors ordered nine specific cuts (restored in this print), eliminating scenes or shots which they defined as ‘sacrilegious,' ‘indecent,' or ‘will tend to incite to crime.'”