Mister 880 (1950)
It's the picture everybody is cheering !
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.
- Date of release
- 1950-09-29
- TMDB
- 7.2 / 10 (38)
- Runtime
- 1h 30m
- Genres
- Comedy, Crime, Romance
- Director
- Edmund Goulding
Casting
- Burt Lancaster — Steve Buchanan
- Dorothy McGuire — Ann Winslow
- Edmund Gwenn — William "Skipper" Miller
- Millard Mitchell — "Mac" McIntire
- Minor Watson — Judge O'Neil
- Howard St. John — Chief
- Hugh Sanders — Thad Mitchell
- James Millican — Olie Johnson
- George Adrian — Carlos (uncredited)
- Rico Alaniz — Carlos (Spanish Interpreter) (uncredited)
- Polly Bailey — Woman (uncredited)
- Jean Bane — Cashier (uncredited)
Interesting facts
- Awards: 0 · Nominations: 1
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.
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