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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;jloring, post: 924708, member: 15518&quot;][FONT=arial,helvetica,sans-serif]That was a <i>really</i> obscure movie... <b>Mr. 880</b>, released in 1950. Not wholly fictitious but based on a <b>true</b> story. And the notes were not that good, but because they were $1, they were not heavily scrutinized. I only saw it once on TV, probably fifty years ago.[/FONT]</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>[FONT=arial,helvetica,sans-serif]<i>“Mister 880” (1950), tells the story of an elderly counterfeiter who not only was no artist but in fact provoked a manhunt “that exceeded in intensity and scope any other manhunt in the chronicles of &amp;shy;counterfeiting” precisely because his ineptitude was so bewildering:</i>[/FONT]</p><p>[FONT=arial,helvetica,sans-serif]<i>“The first counterfeit bill he passed on his fellow citizens, in 1938, was a very bad copy of a one-dollar bill. When his career as a counterfeiter came to an end, in 1948, he was still turning out the same crude dollar bills from the same kind of inferior plates, on the same hand-driven printing press in the same corner of the same kitchen of the same top-floor tenement flat, and he never turned out more counterfeit dollars than he needed to support his dog and himself.”</i>[/FONT]</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p><font face="Arial">Read about it here: <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0042742/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0042742/" rel="nofollow">http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0042742/</a></font>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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