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Description:00 35 28 00 United States, 1910s. Inside a bourgeois office, an art dealer brings in and hangs the painting by the French artist Millet which his client has just bought. The amateur art collecter prepares to pay the dealer, handing him a pile of bills. Meanwhile, a convertible enters the villa's garden at top speed. Hallam Cooley and Doris May get out. Cooley gets ready to enter May's father's office to ask him for her hand in marriage, a nod to tradition before the union. But when he enters the office, he notices that the painting that someone has stolen from him is hanging on the wall. Close-up on painting by Millet. The salesman, hidden behind the door, takes advantage of his distraction and flees. They follow him out in hot pursuit.