Tag: counterfeiting

EP3416: The Silent Men: The Roping of Joe Landis


A federal agent sets out to trap a printer and engraver who is suspected of counterfeiting.

Original Air Date: November 25, 1951

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EP3317: Man Called X: Storm Over the Alps

Herbert Marshall

Ken goes to Switzerland to stay at the home of a master counterfeiter who insists he’s retired, but who Ken suspect is behind a counterfeiting operation he’s investigating.

Original Air Date:February 29, 1948

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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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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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EP3152s: The Fourth Estate: Tip Off

Edmond O'Brien

A reporter (Edmond O’Brien) goes undercover to bust up a counterfeiting racket.

Audition Date:June 26, 1946

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EP2818: Richard Diamond: The Charles Johnson Matter

EP2818: Richard Diamond: The Charles Johnson Matter
Diamond is hired by a man who insists he was framed for passing counterfeit bills.

Original Rebroadcast Date: September 13, 1953

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EP2756: Yours Truly Johnny Dollar: The Takes a Crook Matter

Mandel Kramer
Johnny needs to hand over a car trunk full of counterfeit money to a federal agent but is robbed of it before he can.

Original Air Date: February 18, 1962

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Book Review: Tickets for Death


In Tickets for Death, Michael Shayne is called in to investigate counterfeit race track tickets at a small town outside of Miami. He and his wife Phyllis drive to a hotel. Before he can even get started investigating, he has to kill two thugs in self-defense.

This is a generally solid early Michael Shayne story. The story moves at a great pace, and we are given quite a bit of two-fisted action and a complex mystery with many clues as well as quite a few red herrings.

The only negative is that this novel continues his over-the-top playing fast and loose with the police and evidence. I  thought that writer Brett Halliday had reached the point of reigning in how irresponsible he wrote Shayne as being until the last couple chapters, where he does the most egregious thing I’ve ever read Shayne do.

Despite that, this is a fun read. By no means is it a great novel, but if you’re looking for a detective story from the 1940s with a hard-boiled bent, this one will certainly do the trick.

Rating:3.5 out of 5

 

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EP2598: Boston Blackie: The Fifty Dollar Shoeshine Murder

Richard Kollmar

To solve a gang murder, Blackie has to unravel a counterfeiting case

Original Air Date: September 3, 1947

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EP2015: Richard Diamond: The Bogus Bills Case

Dick Powell

When someone passes a counterfeit bill to a newsboy, DIamond sets out to take down the counterfeiting ring.

Original Air Date: October 15, 1949

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EP1906: The Avenger: Murder Hits the Jackpot

A murder sets Jim on the trail of a counterfeiting ring.

Original Air Date: March 21, 1946

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EP1770: Nick Carter: The Case of the Bull and Bear

Lon Clark
A store detective is killed in a counterfeiting scheme gone bad.

Original Air Date: October 24, 1948

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