Mortimer Duke

Then the two old men who own the firm bet each other about whether any of it was really his, and by the end of the day, it wasn't.

Arrested, thrown out, locked out, accounts frozen, and the other half of that bet is Eddie Murphy as Billy Ray Valentine, a street hustler begging outside the Duke's club that morning, who by nightfall has Louis' house, Louis' job and Louis' butler.

Two men swapped to settle an argument, and it was a bet over one dollar, as I'm sure you recall.

So he's at a pawn shop counter, and he takes off his watch, and he explains at some length that this is a Rochefoucauld, the thinnest water-resistant watch in the world.

Three things about being rich, and Trading Places gives you all three.

The first is the bet.

Randolph and Mortimer Duke, played by Ralph Bellamy and Don Ameche, own the firm, Duke & Duke.

And what do two men who have everything do for fun? They bet each other $1 on whether a man is made by his circumstances, his environment.