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Border Incident
Why this pick
Mann brings the same documentary-hard noir texture, undercover investigation, and escalating sense of danger, shifting the Treasury procedural into a brutal border-crime setting.
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MOVIE1947 1h 32m USA
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Why this pick
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01 / THE STORY
A little about the film.
The story involves two U.S. Treasury ("T-men") agents who go undercover in Detroit and then Los Angeles in an attempt to break a U.S. currency counterfeiting ring.
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02 / FACES IN THE FRAME
The people who bring it to life.
Dennis O'Keefe
Dennis O'Brien / Vannie Harrigan
Herbert Heyes
Chief Carson
Jack Overman
Brownie
Jim Bannon
Agent Lindsay
Wallace Ford
The Schemer
Alfred Ryder
Tony Genaro / Tony Galvani
June Lockhart
Mary Genaro
Charles McGraw
Moxie