The Million Pound Note Mark Twain's classic story of the penniless American who is given a million pound bank note in a wager and succeeds in keeping it intact for a month, makes gentle screen satire.

Incredibly rare one million pound bank note sold for just £69,000 (but it's not legal tender) By MARTIN ROBINSON Updated: 03:23 EDT, 30 September 2011 ...

The euro zone's high-denomination banknotes always remind me of the Mark Twain short storyor rather the Gregory Peck  movie, "The Million Pound Note." That, older readers may recall ...

A British bank note with a face value of one million pounds has fetched STG78,300 ($A175,000) at auction in London today.

LONDON, Spet 25: A one million pound banknote, believed to be one of only two in existence, is to be offered for ...

The Million Pound Bank Note. In this short story by Mark Twain, set in London in 1896, an American man is given a £1m note as part of a bet between two wealthy Englishman.

The Million Pound Note. 1954 film; Comedy film about a penniless man who is given a million pound note and instructed to live on it for a month without spending any of it. Stars Gregory Peck.

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Published in 1893, The Million Pound Bank Note is a short story written towards the end of Mark Twain’s career. Unusually for Twain, the plot is set in London rather than America.

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