I'm All Right Jack (Britain 1959), with Peter Sellers, Ian Carmichael
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Gentlemen in White Vests (West Germany 1969), with Martin Held, Rudolf Schündler, Heinz Ehrhardt (from left to right)
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Easy Come, Easy Go (USA 1928), with Richard Dix
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Danger: Diabolik (Italy 1968), with John Philip Law, Marisa Mell
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The Thomas Crown Affair (United States 1967), with Steve McQueen
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Rupan sansei: Kariosutoro no shiro/The Castle of Cagliostro (Japan 1979)
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Adventure in Berlin (West Germany 1952), with Wolfgang Neuss
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Mississippi Mermaid (France1969), with Catherine Deneuve, Jean-Paul Belmondo
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Crésus (France 1960), with Fernandel
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Kansas City (US 1995), with Harry Belafonte
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The Big Money (US 1958), with Belinda Lee
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The Ladykillers (Britain 1955), with Katie Johnson, Danny Green
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Money (West Germany 1988/89), with Uwe Ochsenknecht, Billie Zöckler
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The Law (Italy/France 1959), with Gina Lollobridgida
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No gangster movie is complete without a suitcase full of cash. If it’s Swiss francs a shoe box will do. The Swiss thousand-franc bill is the world’s second-highest denomination banknote. A ten-centimetre pile of notes worth CHF1 million weighs 1kg.
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Counting through stashes of money can be seen in films as early as the 1920s. (Pictures: AFP/Kobal Collection, cinetext.de)
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