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Subject: For The Love Of Money - Hold Your Noses Thu Jan 30, 2014 3:00 pm
I just had to share this. Anyone here seen the 1969 movie, "The Magic Christian"? This scene is/was usually edited out on American television. What was true then is still true today. Some people will do anything for the right amount of money. The portion below is from the very end of the movie. Brings to mind the Bible verse about how the lust for money is the root of all evil. And so it is!
Sir Guy Grand (Peter Sellers), an eccentric billionaire, together with his newly adopted heir (formerly a homeless derelict), Youngman Grand (Ringo Starr), start playing elaborate practical jokes on people. A big spender, Grand does not mind handing out large sums of money to various people, bribing them to fulfill his whims, or shocking them by bringing down what they hold dear. Their misadventures are designed as a display of father Grand to his adoptive charge that 'everyone has their price' - it just depends on the amount one is prepared to pay.