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Last week a wave of shock ads ("No one under 16 will be admitted") ushered the claptrap into Manhattan. New York critics brushed the picture off with amused disdain. Whether taken as an inept counterfeit of Hollywood gangster movies or a witless parody, No Orchids is so ludicrous that its thugs' thinly disguised British accents seem minor imperfections...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Import, Mar. 5, 1951 | 3/5/1951 | See Source »

...Kind. In Barrie, Ont., four miners were arrested for passing counterfeit money they had received in payment for stolen silver...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Jan. 8, 1951 | 1/8/1951 | See Source »

Mister 880. A sentimental comedy with Edmund Gwenn as an amiable bane of the U.S. Secret Service's counterfeit experts (TIME...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Current & Choice, Dec. 25, 1950 | 12/25/1950 | See Source »

...muffs a promising chance to do justice to an authentic saga of World War II. The movie was filmed in the Philippines, so that even a fictional treatment might have preserved a semi-documentary tang. Instead, taken either as fiction or reportage, the picture turns out to be as counterfeit and hackneyed as a comic-book adventure yarn, and not nearly so well paced...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, Nov. 27, 1950 | 11/27/1950 | See Source »

Mister 880. A sentimental comedy with Edmund Gwenn as an amiable old bane of the U.S. Secret Service's counterfeit men (TIME...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Current & Choice, Nov. 27, 1950 | 11/27/1950 | See Source »

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