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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.
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- Julian Blaustein
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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- Edmund Goulding
- Not Rated
- Comedy, Crime, Romance
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.
- Emerich Juettner, January 1876, Austro-Hungarian Empire
- Counterfeiting United States currency
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
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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
Summaries. Gentle romantic comedy about a Secret Service Agent trying to catch a cold case counterfeiter and a United Nations translator. The Secret Service of the US Treasury Department has been able to nab a number of high-powered and violent counterfeiters over the years, but case number 880, which has been open now for ten years, has so far ...