Mister 880 (1950)

Directed by

Edmund Goulding

Genre

comedy film, crime film

Country

United States

Runtime

1h 30m

Rated

NR

Rating

7.2 of 10 from 36 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A Secret Service agent investigates a long-running counterfeiter who only makes small bills to get by. The criminal turns out to be a kind elderly man that no one suspects.

lightheartedwhimsicalgentlequirkyfeel-goodsentimentalplayful

What happens

Mister 880 is a 1950 American romantic drama film directed by Edmund Goulding and starring Burt Lancaster, Dorothy McGuire and Edmund Gwenn. The film is based on the true story of Emerich Juettner, an elderly man who counterfeited just enough money to survive and skillfully eluded authorities for ten years. Juettner's story was first told in an article by St. Clair McKelway published in The New Yorker and later collected in McKelway's book True Tales from the Annals of Crime & Rascality. Juettner, who was caught and arrested in 1948, serving four months in prison, earned more money from the release of Mister 880 than he had produced in his entire counterfeiting career. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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