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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.
- (1.8K)
- 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
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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
A romantic comedy about a Secret Service agent who tries to catch a counterfeiter and falls in love with a UN translator. The film follows the agent's investigation of a mysterious old man who prints fake $1 bills and gives them to his friends.
