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Mister 880 is a 1950 American light-hearted romantic drama film directed by Edmund Goulding and starring Burt Lancaster, Dorothy McGuire and Edmund Gwenn. The movie is about an amateurish counterfeiter who counterfeits only one dollar bills , and manages to elude the Secret Service for ten years.
- $1,750,000
- Julian Blaustein
A Secret Service agent falls in love with a UN interpreter who is a suspect in a decade-long counterfeiting case. Based on a true story, the film features Burt Lancaster, Edmund Gwenn and Dorothy McGuire in the lead roles.
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- Edmund Goulding
- Not Rated
- Comedy, Crime, Romance
Emerich Juettner. Emerich Juettner (January 1876 – January 4, 1955), also known as Edward Mueller or Mister 880, was an Austrian-American immigrant known for counterfeiting United States $1 bills and eluding the United States Secret Service for a decade, from 1938 to 1948. [1] When caught, he openly admitted his actions, adding that he had ...
- Emerich Juettner, January 1876, Austro-Hungarian Empire
- Counterfeiting United States currency
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Mister 880 is a comedy crime drama starring Burt Lancaster as an old man who secretly counterfeits money. The film is based on a series of articles by St. Clair McKelway in The New Yorker and was directed by Edmund Goulding.
- Edmund Goulding, Eli Dunn
- Burt Lancaster
A Secret Service agent charged with investigating small-time counterfeiter Mister 880, Steve Buchanan (Burt Lancaster), arrives in New York with his partner, Mac (Millard Mitchell). Befriending ...
- Comedy