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The 1954 film The Million Pound Note was based on this short story, and starred Gregory Peck as Henry Adams; The 1968 BBC TV adaptation, The £1,000,000 Bank Note, starred Stuart Damon; The 1983 comedy film, Trading Places, features elements from both the short story and Twain's novel, The Prince and the Pauper
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. [2] It was shot at Pinewood Studios and on location ...
The film details the fates of many of the people who were involved in the scandal, including Peter Baring who "has promised never to work in the City of London again." Hong Kong merchant banker Steven Clarke observes the class-based humour of the downfall of Barings: "For a boy from Watford to bring a grand firm down, I mean it was a social ...
The film was then scheduled for a January 2012 release, but after Murphy was announced as the host of the 2012 Oscar ceremony (he later stepped down), [6] the film was given a date of March 23, 2012; [7] this was later pushed to April 20, 2012, [8] before being pushed up to its eventual release date of March 9, 2012.
Seven Pounds is a 2008 American drama film directed by Gabriele Muccino, written by Grant Nieporte, and starring Will Smith as a man who sets out to change the lives of seven people; Rosario Dawson, Woody Harrelson, and Barry Pepper also star.
Big is a 1988 American fantasy comedy-drama film directed by Penny Marshall and stars Tom Hanks as Josh Baskin, an adolescent boy whose wish to be "big" transforms him physically into an adult. The film also stars Elizabeth Perkins , David Moscow , John Heard , and Robert Loggia , and was written by Gary Ross and Anne Spielberg .
Millions is a 2004 British comedy-drama film directed by Danny Boyle, and starring Alex Etel, Lewis Owen McGibbon, and James Nesbitt.The film's screenwriter Frank Cottrell-Boyce adapted his screenplay into a novel while the film was still in the process of being made.
Mathematics portal; 1,000,000,000 (one billion, short scale; one thousand million or one milliard, one yard, [1] long scale) is the natural number following ...