The Million Pound Note - Gregory Peck 1954

A marvellous little film from Ronald Neame an adaption of a story by Mark Twain. This scene shows the British attitude to wealth - it does not matter what you look like so long as you have money and plenty of it. "Never judge a book by its cover!" The restuarant are obsequious to the extreme when they ask for payment and are presented with the note. An impoverished American sailor is fortunate enough to be passing the house of two rich gentlemen who has conceived the crazy idea of distributing a note worth one million pounds. The sailor finds that whenever he tries to use the note to buy something, people treat him as if he is a King and let him have whatever he likes for free. Ultimately, the money proves to be more troublesome than it is worth when it almost costs him his dignity and the woman he loves. Gregory Peck and Joan Hickson (John Kelly?)