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5.8/10 • 27

1949-09-271h 18m

CrimeThrillerMystery

When a killer dreams of millions... and a girl to spend them on!

Secret Service agents make a deal with a counterfeiting inmate to be released on early parole if he will help them recover some bogus moneymaking plates, but he plans to double-cross them.

Directors
Richard Fleischer
Editors
Alfred DeGaetano

Top Billed Cast

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  1. Lloyd Bridges

    Lloyd Bridges

    Tris Stewart

  2. Barbara Payton

    Barbara Payton

    Meg Dixon

  3. John Hoyt

    John Hoyt

    Agent John Downey

  4. James Todd

    James Todd

    Jack Sylvester

  5. Russ Conway

    Russ Conway

    Chief Agent Gunby

  6. Robert Karnes

    Robert Karnes

    Agent Fred Foreman

  7. Jay C. Flippen

    Jay C. Flippen

    Bartender (uncredited)

  8. Lucille Barkley

    Lucille Barkley

    Betty Mason (uncredited)

  9. Tommy Noonan

    Tommy Noonan

    Bank Teller (uncredited)

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CinemaSerf

Jul 9, 2022

6/10

Try as I might, I am afraid that I just cannot take to Lloyd Bridges. His boyish good looks and finely coiffured hairstyle try, and try quite hard, but can't really make up for the fact that he just can't really act! This time around he is "Tris", a convicted counterfeiter who is recruited by the US Secret Service to help them get to the bottom of a ring that is flooding the place with dodgy bills. Eventually agreeing to help them, he escapes their supervision and rejoins his girlfriend Barbara Peyton ("Meg") and his old gang where he proposes a new, lucrative, scheme. John Hoyt is quite effective as the double-dealing "Downey" and Richard Fleischer keeps the first half hour or so quite suspenseful, but for some reason the thing just rapidly falls away as we head to a pretty flat denouement in an eerily lit trolley-bus hangar. Ultimately, it's an adequate crime noir, but the characterisations lack depth and I found the whole thing rather unremarkable.

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Status
Released
Original Language
English
Budget
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Revenue
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Keywords
film noircounterfeittreasury departmentb movieblack and white