Terribly funny book written by Terry Southern which, slightly rearranged by the author, became a very funny 1969 movie starring Peter Sellers as Guy Grand, a very rich man who likes to mess with the heads of the greedy and narrow-minded. Among those he works on: grocery store customers, the higher management of his own company, traffic wardens, the patrons of a snooty French restaurant, both the experts and customers at an art auction, the audience of The Oxford-Cambridge Varsity Boat Race, the cream of English high society, and finally whatever greedy people happen to pass a particular vacant field. It's really more of a series of skits than events that have to occur in any particular order, but it does build to a climax.
The movie features Ringo Starr as Grand's adopted son, and small parts for Richard Attenborough, Christopher Lee, Spike Milligan, Roman Polanski, John Cleese, Graham Chapman, Raquel Welch, and if you look very closely, John Lennon and Yoko Ono. Badfinger perform much of the music, including their hit "Come And Get It" which is essentially the theme to the film.