This film, now in the public domain, premiered in Nazi-era Germany in 1938. No high-quality upload of this film seemed to exist, so I made one for my boyfriend, and anyone else interested in this particular era of film history. The German subtitles come from the Filmjuwelen [Gems of Film History] DVD release. Upscaling was done using Topaz AI Upscaler. The English subtitles are done using both OCR and Google Translate (with the help of my German-fluent boyfriend), so they won't be perfect. I think it did a good job, though. As far as I know, this is the first time this film has been translated into English.
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Five Million Look for an Heir (German: Fünf Millionen suchen einen Erben) is a 1938 German comedy film directed by Carl Boese and starring Heinz Rühmann, Leny Marenbach and Vera von Langen. It was based on a novel by Harald Baumgarten.
According to his last will, the rich American uncle of vacuum cleaner salesman Peter Pett only leaves his 5 million dollars to Peter if he is married happily. Otherwise the five million will fall to Peter's Scottish cousin, Patrick.
