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Out of good-natured respect
- Out of good-natured respect, the Secret Service nicknames the perpetrator "Mister 880," and his counterfeit notes are called "880s".
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Secret Service agent Steve Buchanan and his boss discuss their longest running case of 10 years, Case 880, which involves fake $1 bills, each with an obvious mistake: Washington is spelled "Wahsington". Though the bills are blatantly amateur in quality, people rarely look closely enough at the $1 bills to notice.
Jul 21, 2021 · Secret Service agent Steve Buchanan (Burt Lancaster, Atlantic City) becomes obsessed with capturing an elusive counterfeiter dubbed “Mister 880.” However, unbeknownst to the agent, the “master criminal” he is looking for is in fact a pitiful old man named “Skipper” Miller (Edmund Gwenn, Miracle on 34th Street ).
Jan 30, 2015 · For a fresh perspective, they bring in Steve Buchanan (Burt Lancaster) to work on the case. He begins to notice that there is a geographical pattern to how the money is being used and soon a suspect turns up. Two counterfeit one dollar bills are used by Ann Winslow (Dorothy McGuire).
Aug 5, 2019 · The NYC Secret Service office, headed by Thad Mitchell (Hugh Sanders), needs a fresh outlook in trying to nab the bureau’s longest unsolved case, and hotshot LA agent, Steve Buchanan (Burt Lancaster), is sent in to help.
Mister 880: Directed by Edmund Goulding. With Burt Lancaster, Dorothy McGuire, Edmund Gwenn, Millard Mitchell. Gentle romantic comedy about a Secret Service Agent trying to catch a cold case counterfeiter and a United Nations translator.
- (2K)
- Comedy, Crime, Romance
- Edmund Goulding
- 1950-10-30
Apr 2, 2020 · A gentle, agreeable, if inconsequential romance about Steve Buchanan (Burt Lancaster), a Secret Service agent on the hunt for a counterfeiter known as Mr. 880. The number refers to the Secret Service case file.
As Steve goes about his initial investigation of merchants who have been duped over those ten years, Steve is unaware that he meets Mister 880, a kindly old gentleman named William 'Skipper' Miller, who most would not suspect, including his friends.
