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The Million Pound Note (1953)

Director: Ronald Neame

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An adaptation of Mark Twain's yarn about two wealthy brothers who pick on a penniless seaman to settle their bet as to whether someone could live on a million without spending anything. Scripted by Jill Craigie (Mrs Michael Foot), it emerges as a bland Technicolor sitcom that overstretches the short story ironies of everything coming to he who has. Squire and Hyde-White are the brothers, Peck the holder of the paper-money fortune who (initially) can't spend it for trying.

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Cast & crew

Director: Ronald Neame

Producer: John Bryan

Cast: Gregory Peck, Jane Griffiths, Ronald Squire, Wilfrid Hyde-White, Joyce Grenfell, AE Matthews, Maurice Denham full cast

Genre(s): Comedy

Duration: 91 mins


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