Mark Twain's classic story of the penniless American who is given a million pound bank note in a wager and succeeds in keeping it intact for a month, makes gentle screen satire. Mark Twain’s ...

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Sparkling comedy adapted from a short story by Mark Twain. Gregory Peck stars as a penniless American living by his wits in London, who becomes the object of a wager.