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Season 5 Ep 25 Federal Men Treasury Men in Action

Video Theater 200: Treasury Men in Action: The Case of the Deadly Dilemma

A Treasury Agent (Charles Bronson) wants to get in good with a criminal and gets an opportunity…if he performs a hit job.

Original Air Date: March 24, 1958

Season 5, Episode 25

EP3404: The Silent Men: The Transatlantic Push


Two treasury agents head Europe to bust a criminal who took the life savings of a Holocaust survivor and exchanged it for counterfeit U.S. currency.
Original Air Date: November 11, 1951
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EP3272: T-Man: The Big Mexican Dope

After a T-Man is killed, Steve goes undercover as a drug dealer to find the top of an international drug ring.
Original Air Date: July 29, 1950

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EP3266: T-Man: Show Business is No Business

Treasury Agent Steve Larsen investigates some counterfeiting and suspicion falls on a theatrical company that’s touring in a production of an awful play.

Original Air Date: July 1, 1950

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EP3260: T-Man: The Case of the Bleeding Gold

Treasury Agent Dennis O’Brien goes to undercover to infiltrate a gang that’s counterfeiting gold coins.

Audition Date: April 29, 1950

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EP3254: Treasury Agent: Lady in Red

Larry Haines

Treasury Agent Joe Lincoln tries to find a way to break a female blackmailer.
Original Air Date: Possibly November 9, 1958

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EP3248: Treasury Agent: Know Your Money

Larry Haines

A bartender puts the Treasury Department on the trail of some counterfeit money.

Original Air Date: Between 1954 and 1957

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EP3242: Treasury Agent: The Case of the Faithful Wife

The Treasury Department’s caught and convicted a counterfeiter but can’t locate the plates.  Joe Lincoln suspects the wife of the counterfeiter of hiding the plates.

Original Air Date: April 11, 1947

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Streaming Review: T-Men

In the 1947 film T-Men, two Treasury agents (Dennis O’Keefe and Alfred Ryder) travel to Detroit and go undercover in an attempt to infiltrate and ultimately break a counterfeiting ring.

T-men was a very entertaining bit of noir. It has the same cinematographer as He Walked by Night, and if you enjoyed the look of that film, you’ll probably like this one as well.

It’s one of those procedurals like He Walked by Night which really strove to portray the real life work of the investigator. So there’s a lot of detail, a lot of different scenes and minor characters who pop-up as our heroes try to work their way to the top, through a long tangled web of the underworld from creating their criminal identities to solving the case and making the bust. 

The script is smart, well-written and well-thought out. Our heroes are in constant peril and we’re given a reminder of how much they and, by extension, real-life Treasury Agents risk in the course of their work. Throughout most of the time, the film takes a deliberate pace, but it definitely picks up in the last ten minutes as the case comes to a finale.

The acting is solid. Outside of O’Keefe, most of the cast is made up of veteran character actors who manage to play their parts without seeming over-the-top, campy, or too stereotypical. Wallace Ford as the Schemer may have been my favorite performance. The main rising star in this is June Lockheart (Lost in Space) who appears as one of the agents’ wives.

The criticisms I’ve read online have basically come down to complaints about it being a procedural noir made in 1940s. If you want something faster paced or less detailed, this may not be the film for you. However, if you appreciate the realistic procedural films of the 1940s, this is a must-see.

Rating: 4.5 out of 5

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EP3236: Treasury Agent: The Hate Racket

The Treasury Department tries to infiltrate a nationwide network of hate groups.

Original Air Date: April 14.1947

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EP3127: Yours Truly Johnny Dollar: The London Matter

Edmond O'Brien

Johnny boards a boat to London along with some insured cargo because a Treasury Man suspects there’s a cache of narcotics among the cargo.

Original Air Date: June 22, 1950

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