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. Mark Twain’s ...

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 ...

You would hope that if you were selling one of the world's few one million pound notes you would at least get its face value at auction. But one of only nine ever issued was sold today for a ...

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Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. A British bank note with a face value of one million pounds has fetched STG78,300 ($A175,000) at ...

A classic tale from the master of literary realism, Mark Twain. Published in 1893, The Million Pound Bank Note is a short story written towards the end of Mark Twain’s career. Unusually for ...

A multi-million pound company at the centre of a police probe ... of London Police after it was believed to be offering loan notes to investors with high interest return over a fixed period.

the million pound banknote was one of only nine, numbered 000001 to 000009, that were produced for a period of six weeks only. The eight-inch-wide green note was issued by the Treasury on August ...

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 ...

The Million Pound Note - Sparkling comedy adapted from a short story by Mark Twain.Gregory Peck stars as a penniless American living by his wits in London, who becomes the object of a wager. More info ...

Sparkling comedy adapted from a short story by Mark Twain. Gregory Peck stars as a penniless American living by his wits in London, who becomes the object of a wager.