{"id":624,"date":"2008-08-27T00:22:20","date_gmt":"2008-08-27T04:22:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/?p=624"},"modified":"2008-08-27T00:22:20","modified_gmt":"2008-08-27T04:22:20","slug":"the-million-pound-note-1953-ronald-neame","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/archives\/624","title":{"rendered":"The Million Pound Note (1953, Ronald Neame)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A British comedy starring stiff, beefy American Gregory Peck (Robert Osbourne explained that American actors could reap tax benefits from working abroad a few months a year), based on a Mark Twain story, an early film work by the man who would become the Criterion-celebrated director of <em>Hopscotch<\/em> and other films I know nothing about.<\/p>\n<p>Penniless Peck is given the titular note by two hyper-rich pranksters (IMDB says that in 2002 dollars, we&#8217;re talking about a hundred million bucks) who have a bet that he can\/can&#8217;t live for a month solely on the appearance of wealth without ever cashing the check (or, presumably, getting a job).  Peck hires a mute weightlifter to help him out, gets some suits and a swanky hotel, and falls for a young noblewoman (Jane Griffiths, of not much else).  A few close calls and but Peck makes it through the month and presumably gets the job (worth somewhat less than a hundred million bucks) and the girl.<\/p>\n<p>More jokes about not paying your tailor, twenty years after the Lubitsch movies.  Not paying your tailor is hilarious to the British!  A pretty good light movie.  Katy and Jimmy enjoyed it more than <em>Hamlet Goes Business<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A British comedy starring stiff, beefy American Gregory Peck (Robert Osbourne explained that American actors could reap tax benefits from working abroad a few months a year), based on a Mark Twain story, an early film work by the man who would become the Criterion-celebrated director of Hopscotch and other films I know nothing about. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[342,102,519,518],"class_list":["post-624","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie","tag-1950s","tag-britain","tag-gregory-peck","tag-ronald-neame"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/624","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=624"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/624\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":735,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/624\/revisions\/735"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=624"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=624"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=624"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}