- Marcellini, a successful wine dealer, has a sudden heart attack and dies. His will leaves his entire fortune to his only kin, a husband and wife who operate a small farm. Guido, the husband, agrees against his better judgment to move on to the Marcellino estate. Before he knows it he is up to his neck in marriage troubles, people trying to swindle him out of his inheritance and blackmail.—frankfob2@yahoo.com
- Guido Barteni, an Italian truck gardener, with his wife and baby, living happily on a little farm. Leo Marcellini, a wealthy wine merchant, having wronged the mother of one of his clerks, Wade Crosby, wills him his entire fortune, but when Crosby insists upon marrying the stenographer, Marcellini, overcome with rage, tears up the co-partnership papers, but the letter containing the will falls to the floor and lies there unnoticed. In the excitement Marcellini is stricken with a heart attack which results in his death. The only living relative who can be found is Guido and he and his wife are made sole owners of the beautiful Marcellini Hall. Two crooks, Mr. And Mrs. Murray, descend upon the Italians and act as their social mentors, and proceed to spend for them the Marcellini millions. Guido dislikes his new home; he is uncomfortable, and Mrs. Murray takes Antoinetta, his wife, dresses her in fashionable clothes and escorts her into society. Guido feels his wife slipping away from him and goes to the old home and move his furniture into the big mansion. Through Mrs. Murray's influence the wife becomes indignant and when Guido finally orders a crowd of Mrs. Murray's boisterous friends from the house Antoinetta is induced to get a divorce. Guido goes back to his little truck garden, but is very lonely. Marcellini's crooked manager has found the paper and attempts to extort money from Antoinetta by telling her that she has no right to the Marcellini millions. Antoinetta is overjoyed at this news. Crosby receives the fortune and Antoinetta goes back to the little truck garden, and when Guido returns from the fields he finds her there hard at work, and as they sit down to their first happy meal in months, Guido repeats his remark, that he is a "pretty lucky fella."
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By what name was The Marcellini Millions (1917) officially released in Canada in English?
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