Big Money

Amusing social satire in which Gregory Peck as a burned-out sailor comes into possession of a one-million-pound banknote.

The young American sailor Henry Adams is stranded penniless in England in 1903 and comes at just the right time for two eccentric multimillionaires: the two bet on whether the mere possession of a million pound note will help a poor man ... or not.
Written in 1893 by Mark Twain as a four-page short story "The Million Pound Bank Note". Alexander Korda considered it worth filming as early as 1916 - as a Hungarian silent movie.
"A bank bill with a face value of one million pounds opens all doors for a man who is actually poor, without him having to touch the capital at all. A sympathetic and entertaining satire about the independent power of money, loosely based on the story by Mark Twain." (Dictionary of International Film)