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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.
Mister 880: Directed by Edmund Goulding. With Burt Lancaster, Dorothy McGuire, Edmund Gwenn, Millard Mitchell. Gentle romantic comedy about a Secret Service Agent trying to catch a cold case counterfeiter and a United Nations translator.
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- Comedy, Crime, Romance
- Edmund Goulding
- 1950-10-30
Awards. 1951 - Golden Globe - Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role in a Motion Picture - winner. 1950 - Oscar - Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role - nominated.
Mister 880 (1950), directed by William Goulding, is a story about the second kind of moneymaking scheme, based on the real-life case of a small-scale counterfeiting operation that confounded federal agents for 10 years.
- Edmund Goulding, Eli Dunn
- Burt Lancaster
Mister 880 is a 1950 American comedy film about an amateurish counterfeiter who only counterfeits one dollar bills, and manages to elude the Secret Service for 10 years.
- Edmund Goulding
Mister 880. Based on the true story of Emerich Juettner, an elderly junk dealer who, like the character in the movie, only used to print counterfeit $1 bills to make ends meet. For 10 years, Juettner eluded the Secret Service's efforts to find him.
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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).
- Comedy
