
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.
Cast

Gregory Peck
Henry Adams

Ronald Squire
Oliver Montpelier

Joyce Grenfell
Duchess of Cromarty

A.E. Matthews
Duke of Frognal

Maurice Denham
Jonathan Reid

Reginald Beckwith
Rock

Brian Oulton
Lloyd

John Slater
Parsons

Hartley Power
Lloyd Hastings

George Devine
Chop House Proprietor

Bryan Forbes
Todd

Gudrun Ure
Renie

Hugh Wakefield
Duke of Cromarty

Wilfrid Hyde-White
Roderick Montpelier

Jane Griffiths
Portia Lansdowne

Ronald Adam
Samuel Clements

Hugh Griffith
Potter

Christopher Hewett
Irate Investor

Ernest Thesiger
Mr. Garrett, Bank Director

Larry Dann
Boy

Andrew Faulds
Chief Assistant at Tailor Shop

Willoughby Goddard
Stockbroker

Harold Goodwin
Horace

May Hallatt
Hysterical Woman at Bumbles Hotel

Joan Hickson
Maggie

Hugh Latimer
Bumbles Hotel Receptionist

Eliot Makeham
Consulate Official

Percy Marmont
Lord Hurlingham

Gibb McLaughlin
Sir William Collinge

Laurence Naismith
Walter Craddock

Hal Osmond
Arthur

Mona Washbourne
Mum with Pram

Ian Wilson
Photographer
Crew

Ronald Neame
Director

Jill Craigie
Screenplay

Mark Twain
Story

Clive Donner
Editor

Geoffrey Unsworth
Director of Photography

Robert Asher
Assistant Director

Earl St. John
Executive Producer

John Bryan
Producer
E.M. Smedley-Aston
Associate Producer
Arthur Alcott
Production Controller
James Bawden
Camera Operator
Margaret Furse
Costume Designer
Biddy Chrystal
Hairdresser
George Blackler
Makeup Artist
Winston Ryder
Sound Editor
Dudley Messenger
Sound Recordist
Gordon K. McCallum
Sound Recordist
William Alwyn
Original Music Composer
Dario Simoni
Set Dresser
Muir Mathieson
Conductor
John Box
Art Direction
Jack Maxsted
Art Direction
Joan Bridge
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