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A Secret Service agent infiltrates a counterfeiting ring by posing as a crime boss, while their engraver works from prison. During the operation, the agent falls for Nora Craig.
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"Pacy T-Man movie, one of only three directed by Boris Ingster, whose STRANGER ON THE THIRD FLOOR is held by many to be the film which kicked off the 'film noir' cycle. A narrative voiceover lends a pseudo-documentary air to the tale of a square-jawed treasury agent, John Riggs (Don DeFore), who is tasked with cracking a counterfeiting ring initiated by a dying master forger from inside his jail cell. Once on the trail, Riggs adopts a false identity in the hope of ingratiating himself with the crooks, and this brings him into contact with larcenously inclined hotel manageress Nora Cra..."
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During the opening montage there is a shot of a theater marquee advertising Red River (1948). Editor Christian Nyby obviously inserted this as an inside-joke to himself and cinematographer Russell Harlan, as they worked on both pictures.
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A Secret Service agent infiltrates a counterfeiting ring by posing as a crime boss, while their engraver works from prison. During the operation, the agent falls for Nora Craig.