Forumrxes Yo, there's no way for me to review this film without saying, take your *insert ethnicity + "ass" here* to see this film,like now. You have to see it in order to know what you're really messing with.

Jakoba True to its essence, the characters remain on the same line and manage to entertain the viewer, each highlighting their own distinctive qualities or touches.

Janis One of the most extraordinary films you will see this year. Take that as you want.

Scarlet The film never slows down or bores, plunging from one harrowing sequence to the next.

Irishchatter I came across this film because the mother was flicking through the channels and we decided to give it a watch. I have to admit, it was alright like. I wouldn't call it the best movie I've ever seen. Although it was good seeing Gregory Peck as the main character, I have never seen him as a young man before but I have to say this is my first movie when he was young.I only saw him on the Omen but nothing else until this!I don't have much to say about this movie but, I do consider it watchable!

bkoganbing The Million Pound Note finds its way into the hands of a penniless American sailor who hasn't a pence to his name as he arrives in the United Kingdom at the turn of the last century. Gregory Peck who plays the sailor by chance runs into two elderly English brothers, Ronald Squires and Wilfrid Hyde-White, both filthy rich and are having an academic discussion around money.They give Peck a million pound note from the Bank of England and the idea is to present himself as an eccentric American millionaire and for one month live off the reputation of that note. Peck's not to pay one shilling or break the note in any way. He's to live strictly on credit for that month, live I might add in a posh London hotel, typically posh for the 1900 or so.Before I watched The Million Pound Note tonight I saw a variation on the same theme in Pretty Woman. Julia Roberts goes to a chic Rodeo Drive store in Beverly Hills and the first time arriving in her hooker working clothes, she's shown the door, but quick. But as Richard Gere said to her, they don't respect people, but credit cards yes, the higher the spending limit, the better.The Million Pound Note was Gregory Peck's first venture into comedy and if you're looking for a lot of gags and belly laughs, skip this film. What you will find is a nice piece of whimsical humor where Peck's essential decency is kind of turned on itself for laughs. He's perfectly willing to be an guinea pig as the two old gents will give him enough money to get back to America.But in this as in so many films, Peck doesn't count on falling in love with young aristocrat Jane Griffiths. She doesn't mind him being penniless or so she tells him, but snooty aunt Joyce Grenfell sure does when word comes out Peck's a fake.The Million Pound Note is a good film with Peck in a perfectly suited character for himself. And it proves the old adage that millionaires are eccentric and paupers are just crazy.

theowinthrop This is an amusing trifle, set at the turn of the century in England, but based on a story by Mark Twain of all people. Twain at his best could take a trifling idea and run off with it. He demolishes detectives in "The Stolen White Elephant", which describes the ineptitude of detectives in finding a huge creature that has run off. Similarly here he demonstrates the limitations of money and how easy one can live on credit by simply having a note that nobody can cash.Two brothers who are very wealthy give the Bank of England one million pounds so that they can settle a bet. There is a single bank note for one million pounds in existence. What would happen if someone in need were given the note as an act of charity? An American sailor is shipwrecked, and brought to England when rescued without any money on him. He is given the note. Like the two wealthy brothers in "Trading Places" they have a bet: will the sailor survive or starve to death because nobody can cash the note? Less we think that such notes don't exist, the Federal Reserve System used to use a limited set of $100,000 bills with the face of Woodrow Wilson (the President who signed the Federal Reserve Act into law) for transfers between the branches of the Federal Reserve Banks. I do not know if they are still in use. There were also notes for $10,000 (with the face of Lincoln's Secretary of the Treasury, Salmon P. Chase - who okay-ed the first national "greenback" currency), and for $5,000 (with the face of President James Madison, who refused to save the first Bank of the United States, but did push the recharter of the second Bank of the United States - a semi-private early version of the Federal Reserve System).The film follows Gregory Peck's discovery that he is a guinea pig for this bet, but making the most of it. The two brothers (Ronald Squiers and Wilfred Hyde-White) stay mostly in the background. Both give good performances, and while I agree with another writer on this website that Hyde-White is better remembered today, Squiers was a widely respected film and stage actor of the time ("The Rocking Horse Winner", for example). Jane Griffiths plays the aristocrat who falls in love with Peck. A.E.Matthews has a nice role as a Yankee hating aristocrat, who suddenly realizes that there is one thing worse that that - a greedy Briton. And Hugh Griffith does the most with the part of a suspicious newspaperman.Twain was fascinated by a legal case of the 1870s, the Ticheborne Claimant, wherein an impostor claimed title to a baronetcy and it's multi-million pound estate. Twain even wrote a novel, "The American Claimant", based on the incident. One of the noteworthy incidents of the actual case was that "Ticheborne Bonds" were sold promising profit to investors who would give money needed for the Claimant's legal fees (if he won, they'd be paid out of the estate). Similarly here, in the film, bonds supporting Peck's honesty are printed. At one point there is a run by the bond holders when they believe that they've been lied to.It is a very amusing trifle, and well worth catching whenever it appears on television.

stryker-5 Two elderly brothers, wealthy English gentlemen, establish a wager. They entrust a million-pound banknote to a penniless American, to see if he can live for a month purely on the good will which the note will engender, without ever having to cash it.Gregory Peck plays Henry Adams, the innocent American, in this stodgy romantic comedy, based on a Mark Twain story. His love interest Portia Lansdowne is played by Jane Griffiths. The film is really just one gag, strung out for 90 minutes - a pauper has no friends, whereas a millionaire is surrounded by sycophancy and limitless credit. Markets deal in confidence, rather than cash.The film is unarguably well-made. The performances are sharp, the incidental music comments neatly on the action and the 'look' is sumptuous. And yet there is something flat about Ronald Neame's direction, and the laughs are rather thin on the ground.Verdict - Ostensibly a good idea, but not enough to support a full-length film.