Photograph of 'The Yacht Scene in the great London success Brewsters Millions by Winchell Smith and Byron Ongley. The caption reads ?If you hoist that distress signal it will cost you ?40,000?. Monty Brewster is trying to get rid of the money. He must spend a fortune which has been left to him. Unless he does, he will not inherit a bigger one. The plot has been altered many times on stage and film, while retaining this central idea.