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Mister 880. Edmund Gwenn as a lovable old counterfeiter who baffles the Secret Service for ten years; with Burt Lancaster and Dorothy McGuire (TIME...
Twentieth-Century Fox has unfortunately overlaid McKelway's remarkable story with a vencer of slick plot and slovenly acting. An incipient love theme stumbles awkwardly in and out of the hunt for 880; it involves Burt Lancaster as the Treasury man who catches 880, and Dorothy Maguire as a U.N. interpreter who had little to do with the original story at all. Lancaster handles a wide range of emotion by wrinkling his forehead (sincerity), rolling his eyes (bewilderment), and flashing a hair-trigger smile (most everything else); Miss Maguire is hyperthyroid. What saves the picture is the warm and careful...
Mister 880. Edmund Gwenn as a lovable old counterfeiter who baffles the Secret Service; with Burt Lancaster and Dorothy McGuire (TIME...
Mister 880. Edmund Gwenn as a lovable old counterfeiter who baffles the Secret Service for ten years; with Burt Lancaster and Dorothy McGuire (TIME...
...less adroit hands, the movie's inevitable love interest might have proved a stumbling block; instead, it gives the story a lift. One of Gwenn's friendly neighbors, U.N. Translator Dorothy McGuire, inadvertently receives and passes some of the queer, thus catches the eye of T-man Burt Lancaster. Eager to prolong his attentions, she reads up on counterfeiting and begins spouting counterfeiter's argot. This maneuver sets up a clever scene in which Lancaster gives her a whispered grilling at a nightclub table while wandering violinists serenade them with romantic mood music. The romance also serves...