Things look up for Henry Adams when two eccentric bankers issue the penniless seaman with a banknote with a face value of a million quid. The toffs select Adams as their guinea pig in an experiment to see if a man can live like a king if he’s broke but has an entree to credit. The note wafts away on the breeze like the feather in Forrest Gump and so does Mark Twain’s story in an agreeable fashion.

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