Mister 880
Gentle romantic comedy about a Secret Service Agent trying to catch a cold case counterfeiter and a United Nations translator.
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"Burt Lancaster has top billing in this film, but the plot, character and whole movie belong to Edmund Gwenn - "Mister 880." Gwenn had won the Oscar for best supporting actor in "Miracle on 34th Street" of 1947, and was nominated again for his role in this film. While he didn't win the Oscar in 1951, he did win another Golden Globe as best supporting actor, which he had also won for "Miracle" in 1947. Gwenn's role of William "Skipper" Miller here is based on a real person, Emerich Juettner. And the movie is based on the true story of Juettner&a..."
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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. He was finally caught in January, 1948, after a fire forced him to vacate his apartment on New York's Upper West Side, and move in with his daughter in Queens. The firemen who put out the fire left some of Juettner's belongings in a nearby alley. A few weeks later, a group of local boys found some of his $1 bills in the alley, realized they were fakes (the name "Washington" was misspelled as "Wahsington" on the bills), and turned them over to police. Juettner was arrested, but only sentenced to nine months in jail and a $1 fine. When 20th Century Fox bought the movie rights to his story, Juettner received more money than he had ever made as a counterfeiter.
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Gentle romantic comedy about a Secret Service Agent trying to catch a cold case counterfeiter and a United Nations translator.