The Million Pound Note

The Million Pound Note

90 mins | Comedy, Romance | Jan. 7, 1954

An impoverished American sailor is fortunate enough to be passing the house of two rich gentlemen who have 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 like 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.

The Million Pound Note

90 mins | Comedy, Romance | Jan. 7, 1954

The Million Pound Note
An impoverished American sailor is fortunate enough to be passing the house of two rich gentlemen who have 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 like 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.
IMDb rating 6.8
Producers Rank Organization
Original title The Million Pound Note
Directors Robert Asher, Ronald Neame
Writers Jill Craigie, Mark Twain

Cast

Gregory Peck

as Henry Adams

Ronald Squire

as Oliver Montpelier

Joyce Grenfell

as Duchess of Cromarty

A.E. Matthews

as Duke of Frognal

Maurice Denham

as Jonathan Reid

Brian Oulton

as Lloyd

John Slater

as Parsons

Hartley Power

as Lloyd Hastings

George Devine

as Chop House Proprietor

Bryan Forbes

as Todd

Gudrun Ure

as Renie

Hugh Wakefield

as Duke of Cromarty

Wilfrid Hyde-White

as Roderick Montpelier

Jane Griffiths

as Portia Lansdowne

Ronald Adam

as Samuel Clements

Hugh Griffith

as Potter

Christopher Hewett

as Irate Investor

Ernest Thesiger

as Mr. Garrett, Bank Director

Ronnie Corbett

as Photographer

Larry Dann

as Boy

Andrew Faulds

as Chief Assistant at Tailor Shop

Willoughby Goddard

as Stockbroker

Harold Goodwin

as Horace

May Hallatt

as Hysterical Woman at Bumbles Hotel

Joan Hickson

as Maggie

Hugh Latimer

as Bumbles Hotel Receptionist

Eliot Makeham

as Consulate Official

Percy Marmont

as Lord Hurlingham

Gibb McLaughlin

as Sir William Collinge

Laurence Naismith

as Walter Craddock

Hal Osmond

as Arthur

Mona Washbourne

as Mum with Pram

Ian Wilson

as Photographer