本片拍摄于1953年，根据马克·吐温的小说《一张百万英镑的钞票》改编富豪之家的两兄弟，从银行取出面额为一百万英镑的钞票，想以此验证一个穷人拿到这张巨额钞票的结局。哥哥认为这张钞票对一个穷人毫无价值，最终他还是会穷困潦倒；而弟弟则认为他会因为这张钞票摆脱困境过上富足的生活。为了证明各自的理论的正确的，兄弟两人为此打起了赌。他们将这张钞票留给穷困潦倒的美国小伙子亨利·亚当斯（格利高里·派克 Grego...

To his Victorian London friends, Stephen Lowry is a heartbroken widower. Only his housemaid Lily knows that far from dying of gastroenteritis his wife was slowly poisoned by her husband - information ...