Mister 880

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Mister 880 is a 1950 American comedy-drama film about an elderly, small-time counterfeiter whose charming personality confounds the authorities trying to catch him.

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instanceOf film
awardNominee Edmund Gwenn
awardReceived Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor nomination
basedOn “Mister 880” (article)
linked to: Mister 880
basedOnWorkAuthor St. Clair McKelway
cinematographyBy Leo Tover
countryOfOrigin United States
countryOfSetting United States
director Edmund Goulding
distributionFormat theatrical release
distributor 20th Century Fox
Twentieth Century-Fox
linked to: 20th Century Fox
editedBy William H. Reynolds
filmingProcess black-and-white
genre comedy-drama
crime film
hasTheme aging
crime and morality
law enforcement vs. criminal
hasTitle Mister 880
mainCharacter Ann Winslow
Skipper Miller
“Mister 880” (elderly counterfeiter)
linked to: Mister 880
medium theatrical film
motionPictureRating Approved (Production Code era)
musicBy Leigh Harline
narrativeFocus U.S. Secret Service investigation
small-time counterfeiting
notableFor blend of comedy and drama in a crime story
portrayal of a charming elderly counterfeiter
originalLanguage English
partOf 1950s American cinema
portrays counterfeiting of U.S. currency
producer Fred Kohlmar
linked to: Fred C. Kohlmar
productionCompany Twentieth Century-Fox
linked to: 20th Century Fox
releaseDate 1950-10-16
releaseYear 1950
runtimeMinutes 89
screenwriter Robert Riskin
St. Clair McKelway
setInPeriod 20th century
starring Burt Lancaster
Dorothy McGuire
Edmund Gwenn
Howard St. John
Millard Mitchell

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Edmund Goulding directed Mister 880
Mister 880 basedOn “Mister 880” (article)
linked to: Mister 880
Mister 880 mainCharacter “Mister 880” (elderly counterfeiter)
linked to: Mister 880
Mister 880 hasTitle Mister 880