The Fake
A RACKET'S A RACKET ...and A MURDER IS A MURDER!
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- Drama
- Crime
Overview
Someone is stealing priceless paintings from the great museums of the world and replacing them with nearly flawless forgeries. Leonardo da Vinci's "Madonna and Child" is being shipped to London's Tate Gallery for a special exhibition, and Paul Mitchell is assigned to protect it. Upon the painting's arrival, Paul realizes it has been switched. Eager to collect the museum's $50,000 reward, he teams up with Mary Mason, a Tate employee, to recover the original.
Keywords
- art gallery
- painting
- film noir
- art theft
Details
- Status
- Released
- Release date
- September 25, 1953
- Original language
- English
- Spoken languages
- English
- Countries
- United Kingdom
- Production
- Pax Films
- Cast
- Coleen Gray,Dora Bryan,Tom Clegg,John Laurie,Harold Sanderson,Dan Darnelli,Johnnie Schofield,Gerald Case,Leonard Sharp,Frank Atkinsonand 25 more
- Director
- Godfrey Grayson
- Writer
- James Daplyn,Patrick Kirwan
- Producer
- Steven Pallos
- Cinematography
- Cedric Williams
- Music
- Ilona Kabos
- Budget
- Not recorded
- Revenue
- Not recorded
- IMDb
- tt0045745