The Million Pound Note
- Gregory Peck: Henry Adams
- Ronald Squire: Oliver Montpelier
- Wilfrid Hyde-White: Roderick Montpelier
- Jane Griffiths: Portia Lansdowne
- Joyce Grenfell: Duchess of Cromarty
- A. E. Matthews: Duke of Frognal
- Maurice Denham: Mr. Reid
- Reginald Beckwith: rock
- Brian Oulton: Lloyd
- John Slater: Parsons
- Wilbur Evans: American Ambassador
- Hartley Power: Mr. Westerland
- George Devine restaurant owner
- Bryan Forbes: Todd
- Gudrun Ure: Renie
- Hugh Wakefield: Duke of Cromarty
His biggest Bluff, also known as Big Money - The power of money (AKA The Million Pound Note ), is a British comedy film from 1954 starring Gregory Peck in the lead role. It was formed by the short story The Million Pound Bank Note by Mark Twain. It was directed by Ronald Neame.
Action
The stranded in England in 1903, penniless American Henry Adams is a random object of a bet. The two equally wealthy as grumpy brothers Oliver and Roderick Montpellier leave it for a month, a one-million -pound bank note, for those days an immense sum, to see whether the mere possession of the note to him (without redeem them ) to prosperity and luck helps, what seems to him first to succeed.
Criticism
" A banknote with a nominal value of one million pounds opens a truly poor man all the doors without being obliged to grope the capital at all. Sympathetic and entertaining satire of the herself verselbständigende power of money; free after the story by Mark Twain. "
" An exhilarating and criss-crossed by cheerful irony film based on a story Mark Twain, in which a pauper adroitly avoids him with a suddenly entrusted to 1- million - pound note. "
Comments
As early as 1927 was a first film in Germany, directed by Henrik Galeen and Harry Piel with actors Harry Piel ( in a dual role ), Toni Tetzlaff, Lotte Lorring and in a small role Marlene Dietrich under the title His biggest Bluff ( His Greatest Bluff ).
In 1994, a remake of the film ( One Million for Juan ) with comedian Paul Rodriguez, which shifts the action to the present day and also otherwise very far away from the original.
Mark Twain's short story also served as a template for the resulting successful 1983 comedy Trading Places ( Trading Places ) by director John Landis starring Eddie Murphy and Dan Aykroyd in the lead roles.
2007, the film was titled Big Money - published The power of money on DVD.
Synchronization
The synchronization of the film was in 1954 in Hamburg under the direction of Edgar Flatau. The speakers in detail were: