The euro zone's high-denomination banknotes always remind me of the Mark Twain short storyor rather the Gregory Peck  movie, "The Million Pound Note." That, older readers may recall ...

This famous piece of currency was the subject of a film called 'The Million Pound Note' from 1954 starring Gregory Peck. The film follows Peck as American seaman Henry Adams who gets stranded ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Gregory Peck down and out in Edwardian London? Ghastly business! But things look up for Henry Adams when two eccentric bankers issue ...

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.

Celebrating the many faces of Gregory Peck. By Susan King . Oct. 17, 2003 12 AM PT . ... 1953’s “The Million Pound Note,” released here as “Man With a Million.” ...