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The Million Pound Note is a 1954 British comedy film directed by Ronald Neame and starring Gregory Peck, Ronald Squire, Wilfrid Hyde-White and Jane Griffiths.It is based on the 1893 Mark Twain short story "The Million Pound Bank Note", and is a precursor to the 1983 film Trading Places.
The National Bank of the ZAR issued £1 notes between 1892 and 1893. During the Second Boer War , government notes were issued in denominations of £1, £5, £10, £20, £50 and £100. In 1920, Treasury gold certificate notes were issued in denominations of £1, £5, £100, £1,000 and £10,000, in Afrikaans and English script.
K Foundation Burn a Million Quid [n 1] was a work of performance art executed and filmed on 23 August 1994 in which the K Foundation, an art duo consisting of Bill Drummond and Jimmy Cauty, burned £1 million (equivalent to £2.5 million in 2023) in the back of a disused boathouse on the Ardfin Estate on the Scottish island of Jura.
Also at the party is a good friend of Henry's from San Francisco named Lloyd Hastings, in London to sell shares in a mine and keep any sale proceeds that exceed $1 million. He is about to return home, having been unable to find any wealthy Londoners interested in buying, but Henry offers to use his celebrity to endorse the mine in exchange for ...
Cash on Demand is a 1961 British black and white second feature [2] neo noir crime thriller film directed by Quentin Lawrence and starring Peter Cushing and André Morell. [3] The screenplay was adapted from the 1960 Associated Television Theatre 70 teleplay The Gold Inside, also directed by Lawrence, and featuring André Morell and Richard Vernon in the same roles.
These coins depict the portrait of the President Kruger. The name of the Republic was the Zuid-Afrikaansche Republiek, which was abbreviated as ZAR on the obverse of the 1d, the 2 1 ⁄ 2 s, the 5s, the 1/2 pond, and the 1 pond. The coins of the 1892 issue were struck at the Royal Prussian Mint in Berlin.
Robert Mitchum as Jeb Rand; Judith Anderson as Mrs. Callum; Dean Jagger as Grant Callum; Alan Hale Sr. as Jake Dingle; John Rodney as Adam Callum; Harry Carey, Jr. as Prentice; Bobby "Bonedust" Young as The Sergeant; Ernest Severn as Jeb Rand, age 11; Charles Bates as Adam Callum, age 11; Peggy Miller as Thor Callum, age 10; Ian Wolfe as ...
The $64,000 Question was a British quiz show based on the American format of the same name.The show originally ran from 19 May 1956 to 18 January 1958 produced by ATV and was originally hosted by Jerry Desmonde, and called simply The 64,000 Question with the top prize initially being 64,000 sixpences (£1,600), later doubling to 64,000 shillings (£3,200).