Two U.S. Treasury agents hunt a successful counterfeiting ring.Two U.S. Treasury agents hunt a successful counterfeiting ring.Two U.S. Treasury agents hunt a successful counterfeiting ring.
- Nominated for 1 Oscar
- 1 nomination total
Wallace Ford
- The Schemer
- (as Wally Ford)
Charles McGraw
- Moxie
- (as Charles Mc Graw)
John Ardell
- Dice Player
- (uncredited)
Vivian Austin
- Genevieve
- (uncredited)
Louis Bacigalupi
- Boxcar
- (uncredited)
Trevor Bardette
- Rudy
- (uncredited)
Salvadore Barroga
- Housekeeper
- (uncredited)
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- TriviaThe ship that the boss is on is the Don Anselmo (as seen on the bow). It was launched in 1945 as the MV Reeving Eye, a C1-M-AV1 type cargo ship for the U.S. Maritime Commisson for use in WWII. In 1946 it was sold to a private company and was Panamanian-flagged. After being sold and renamed a couple more times, it collided with a Ecuadorian naval patrol boat on August 30, 1971 and sank with the loss of 13 lives.
- GoofsAlthough the ship in the final sequence is described in dialog as the Higgins, the name visible on the ship's bow is the Don Anselmo.
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Dennis O'Brien: Did you ever spend ten nights in a Turkish bath looking for a man? Don't.
- ConnectionsFeatured in The Doldrum: T-Men (1954)
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Some nice shadowy photography by John Alton and a well-paced storyline directed with style by Anthony Mann, makes for a diverting crime melodrama in crisp documentary style that was popular in the early to mid-'40s. Think BOOMERANG, THE HOUSE ON 92nd STREET, 13 ROUE MADELEINE and other Fox melodramas of that era.
But this was done on a poverty row budget by Eagle-Lion with the usually light-weight actor DENNIS O'KEEFE in the sort of role usually handed to someone like Dana Andrews, Mark Stevens, John Hodiak or William Eythe if the film was made at Fox.
He's surprisingly good as a noir hero whose task is to infiltrate a counterfeit gang with another Federal man, posing as would-be counterfeiters, and thus providing a succession of suspenseful moments where our hero is in danger of being exposed as a T-man for the government. Even more effective, in lesser roles, are CHARLES McGRAW and WALLACE FORD. In fact, McGraw would have been an even better choice for the lead than O'Keefe, his tight-lipped bearing and impressive physique suiting him for the role of a dangerous noir hero.
June Lockhart has only a fleeting appearance in one brief scene but others in the cast are properly sinister or authoritative, according to the way the script depicts the supporting characters.
Summing up: Worth a look, but not at the top of the film noir greats due to a script that is only slightly above average.
But this was done on a poverty row budget by Eagle-Lion with the usually light-weight actor DENNIS O'KEEFE in the sort of role usually handed to someone like Dana Andrews, Mark Stevens, John Hodiak or William Eythe if the film was made at Fox.
He's surprisingly good as a noir hero whose task is to infiltrate a counterfeit gang with another Federal man, posing as would-be counterfeiters, and thus providing a succession of suspenseful moments where our hero is in danger of being exposed as a T-man for the government. Even more effective, in lesser roles, are CHARLES McGRAW and WALLACE FORD. In fact, McGraw would have been an even better choice for the lead than O'Keefe, his tight-lipped bearing and impressive physique suiting him for the role of a dangerous noir hero.
June Lockhart has only a fleeting appearance in one brief scene but others in the cast are properly sinister or authoritative, according to the way the script depicts the supporting characters.
Summing up: Worth a look, but not at the top of the film noir greats due to a script that is only slightly above average.
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- Budget
- $450,000 (estimated)
- Runtime1 hour 32 minutes
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- 1.37 : 1
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