Mister 880
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Mister 880 is a 1950 film directed by Edmund Goulding and starring Burt Lancaster, Dorothy McGuire, Edmund Gwenn, and Millard Mitchell. It is based on an article by St. Clair McKelway that was first published in The New Yorker and later collected in McKelway's book True Tales from the Annals of Crime & Rascality. The article describes the case of Edward Mueller, a small-time counterfeiter of one dollar bills that eluded the United States Secret Service for ten years. In the movie, the protagonist is named 'Skipper' Miller.
[edit] Awards and nominations
- Best Supporting Actor (nomination) - Edmund Gwenn
[edit] External links
- Mister 880 at the Internet Movie Database
- Mister 880 at the TCM Movie Database
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