Windfall, by Robert Andrews (1931) (opens in new tab)

There have been plenty of examples where a film bears little resemblance to the novel that inspired it, but it’s hard to imagine any fan of the classic Pre-Code ensemble comedy If I Had a Million (1932) picking up a copy of Robert Andrews’s Windfall (1931) and wondering whether anyone in Hollywood had actually read it. If I Had a Million is a shining example of a collaborative film (seven directors and sixteen screenwriters produced a film of eight episodes) that isn’t reduced to a lowest com...