Mister 880

Sep 29, 1950

1h 30m

★ 7.0

It's the picture everybody is cheering !

Overview

The Skipper is a charming old man loved by all his neighbors. What they don't know is that he is also Mr. 880, an amateurish counterfeiter who has amazingly managed to elude the Secret Service for 20 years.

Genres

Comedy

Crime

Romance

Production Companies

20th Century Fox

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Cast

Steve Buchanan

Burt Lancaster

Ann Winslow

Dorothy McGuire

William "Skipper" Miller

Edmund Gwenn

"Mac" McIntire

Millard Mitchell

Judge O'Neil

Minor Watson

Chief

Howard St. John

Thad Mitchell

Hugh Sanders

Olie Johnson

James Millican

Carlos (uncredited)

George Adrian

Carlos (Spanish Interpreter) (uncredited)

Rico Alaniz

Woman (uncredited)

Polly Bailey

Cashier (uncredited)

Jean Bane

"Le Dabe" retired many years ago and now he lives in the Tropics where he owns stables and horses. He is a very rich man. He was the king of all money counterfeiters. He is contacted from Paris to organize a new job. He says no. But when he finds out the the currency that should be counterfeited is the Dutch florin, he accepts immediately. He retired after having counterfeited 100 florin notes just before the Queen Wilhelmina retired them from circulation. He flies to Paris. But the gang is not to be trusted, at least not all of them.

6.0

Shadowed

Sep 26, 1946

Fred J. Johnson scores a hole-in-one but his next drive, using the lucky, initialed golf ball, soars out of bounds and lands near a spot where some counterfeiters are burying a murder victim. Then begins a series of events in which he is hounded and threatened by the killers. The consequences of his not reporting what he saw to the police lead to a climax in which is daughter is held hostage by the crooks.

6.4

The Four

Jul 12, 2012

An undercover agent is assigned by his corrupt chief to infiltrate a rival department and sabotage their investigation of counterfeit currency. What he discovers is the counterfeiter's real plan. To overthrow the capital. Not by flooding it with funny money, but with an army of undead.

6.0

Outside the Law

Jun 1, 1956

A government agent's son wins respect and love when he challenges counterfeiters.

5.9

House of Secrets

Oct 23, 1956

Police in Paris recruit an English ship's officer (Michael Craig) to help trap counterfeiters by joining them.

6.9

Danger Pays

Dec 1, 1962

Joe, Okita, and Serizawa hear of the armed robbery of a truck carrying one billion eighty million yen's worth of Mint paper. Knowing that the thugs will now need a counterfeiter to make the bogus bills, they each decide to cash in on it by selling them the idea that they need Sakamoto, the best counterfeiter in Japan. A seesaw game unfolds between the three men as each tries to outdo the other two in handing over Sakamoto for one million yen to Hijikata, the big boss, who intends to make counterfeit money with the stolen paper. A little belatedly, they realize it needs their combined forces to outwit Hijikata and they raid his place together. Outnumbered, however, they are thrown into a basement room and the gas is turned on. Certain death stares them in the face, but the three men are not ones to take things lying down....

5.0

Forced Nudist

Aug 14, 1966

The counterfeiter Clementino begins to be pursued by Interpol. Arriving in Sao Paulo, he notices the presence of the police and suffers an accident. However, he has a double, which causes enormous confusion.

5.2

Blood Money

Apr 12, 1991

A Los Angeles police officer and a female FBI agent team-up to foil a counterfeiting gang in operation. The counterfeiter in question turns out to be an army veteran friend who saved the male cop during their time together in Vietnam.

5.6

The Counterfeiters

May 28, 1948

Scotland Yard cop goes undercover to nab counterfeiter and his gang.

0.0

The Counterfeiters

Sep 21, 1951

Producers of phony currency become the object of a crackdown by law enforcement agencies.

0.0

An Eye for an Eye, A Tooth for a Tooth

Oct 28, 1967

A flood of counterfeit dollars flooded the global market and is creating alarm in governments around the world. Jeff, a dynamic young journalist is commissioned by the director of his newspaper, to investigate a very strange case: find out the whereabouts of his friend, Professor Norton, who’s mysteriously disappeared.

0.0

Firebrand Jordan

Jan 28, 1930

'Firebrand' Jordan is a ranger sent into the high Sierras to assist the local Sheriff Ed Burns in capturing a mysterious band of counterfeiters.

0.0

Northern Frontier

Feb 1, 1935

A Mountie sets out to infiltrate and break up a gang of counterfeiters.

8.0

Das Rätsel der Gefälschten Mumie

Oct 18, 2014

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6.2

The Match King

Dec 31, 1932

Unscrupulous Chicago janitor Paul Kroll uses deceit to fund a return trip to his homeland of Sweden. There, via ongoing continuing deceit and manipulation, he gradually attains a monopoly on the matchstick market in several countries and becomes an influential international figure. Based on the true story of Ivar Kreuger.

5.1

No Sun in Venice

May 31, 1957

Cute Sophie is an amoral French girl living in a sumptuous Venetian palazzo. She is the kept woman of a very rich but undesirable fellow named Eric von Bergen, an ex-nazi turned forger.

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5.5

The Amazing Mr. Nordill

Aug 30, 1947

This John Nesbitt's Passing Parade short takes a look at the gentlemanly life and masterful counterfeiting exploits of Everett Nordill, one of the cleverest counterfeiters who ever baffled the agents of the U.S. Treasury department.