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Bookmark this pageThe Million Pound Note (1953)
Director: Ronald Neame
Movie review
From Time Out Film Guide
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.Author: PT
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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