The Skipper is a charming old man loved by all his neighbors. What they don't know is that he is also Mr. 880, an amateurish counterfeiter who has amazingly managed to elude the Secret Service for 20 years.

Burt Lancaster
as Steve Buchanan

Dorothy McGuire
as Ann Winslow

Edmund Gwenn
as William "Skipper" Miller

Millard Mitchell
as "Mac" McIntire

Minor Watson
as Judge O'Neil

Howard St. John
as Chief

Hugh Sanders
as Thad Mitchell

James Millican
as Olie Johnson

George Adrian
as Carlos (uncredited)

Rico Alaniz
as Carlos (Spanish Interpreter) (uncredited)
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We start with the usual rousing speech about just how the brave Secret Service is at the vanguard when it comes to thwarting American counterfeiters. One person has been successfully eluding them for years, though, and in a last ditch effort they draft in "Steve" (Burt Lancaster). Now we are fully a...