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Mister 880. Edmund Gwenn as a lovable old counterfeiter who baffles the Secret Service for ten years; with Burt Lancaster and Dorothy McGuire (TIME...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Current & Choice, Oct. 30, 1950 | 10/30/1950 | See Source »

Mister 880. Edmund Gwenn as a lovable old counterfeiter who baffles the Secret Service for ten years; with Burt Lancaster and Dorothy McGuire (TIME...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Current & Choice, Oct. 23, 1950 | 10/23/1950 | See Source »

...with the original story at all. Lancaster handles a wide range of emotion by wrinkling his forehead (sincerity), rolling his eyes (bewilderment), and flashing a hair-trigger smile (most everything else); Miss Maguire is hyperthyroid. What saves the picture is the warm and careful performance of Edmund Gwenn as old 880, and the richness of McKelway's material. This material was good before the screen writers got to it, however, and they could have turned an entertaining movie into a possibly great one by leaving well enough alone...

Author: By Paul W. Mandel, | Title: THE MOVIEGOER | 10/17/1950 | See Source »

Mister 880. Edmund Gwenn as a lovable old counterfeiter who baffles the Secret Service; with Burt Lancaster and Dorothy McGuire (TIME...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Current & Choice, Oct. 16, 1950 | 10/16/1950 | See Source »

Mister 880. Edmund Gwenn as a lovable old counterfeiter who baffles the Secret Service for ten years; with Burt Lancaster and Dorothy McGuire (TIME...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Current & Choice, Oct. 9, 1950 | 10/9/1950 | See Source »

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