Doubtful Dollars (1945)
1945 · Ephemeral film · 15 min
- Documentary
Synopsis
This government-sponsored educational film opens with a dramatic portrayal of a counterfeiting ring passing their fake bills to unsuspecting store owners. Then the head of the U.S. Secret Service, a branch of the Treasury Department, discusses efforts to prevent the counterfeiting of paper money, with emphasis on educating the public on how to spot fakes. This film concludes with a detailed examination of the parts of genuine bills contrasted with the likely defects commonly seen in counterfeit currency.
Synopsis from TMDb
Details
- Studio
- Motion Picture Bureau of the Affiliated Aetna Life Companies
- Released
- 1945-12-09
- Running time
- 15 minutes
- Language
- English
- Collection
- Prelinger Archives
Cast & crew
- Frank J. Wilson
Reviews on the Internet Archive
★★★★ · Spread This Around in All the Usual Places...heh,heh, heh, heh... · Christine Hennig · 2004-04-05
In this 40s government film, the head of a ring of counterfitters, who has an outrageously stereotyped gangster voice, passes a gives a bunch of phony money to his minions, who are only shown from the waist down. Then those same minions are shown from the waist up, blandly passing the fake dough in stores and other businesses, usually by buying something really cheap and paying for it with a big (and fake) bill. You keep expecting one of the store clerks to get wise, but they never do. Then a guy from the Secret Service tells us how to spot fake money, and we get to see a bit of interesting…
★★★★ · 'Hey Kid, Go Into The Store and Buy Me Some Cigarettes!' · Spuzz · 2003-10-15
Pretty interesting film about the spreading of counterfeir money. We first see it distributed to various underworld types (we know they're underworld types because they're shown from the neck down) and we're seeing them buying various things. (One woman, the horrors, uses her money to buy crackers and jam! (which, of course, is sold BEHIND THE COUNTER)). We then are shown a little of how money is made and the tell tale signs of a counterfeit bill. This was pretty darn interesting and such, but be warned though, the film it seems was a bitch to transfer over here, as there are a number of…