European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - April 10, 1948, Darmstadt, Hesse .1 undercover agent Dennis Dennis o Keefejr finds night club cigarette girl Evangeline Mary Meade the victim of gangsters to men Hollywood takes authentic criminal Case and turns it into middling melodrama to men is a movie which in a sense was intended to be instructive it i was designed to show the Way in which the United states Treasury department operates in tracking Down counterfeiters and the to men concerned Are government under cover agents. In the Edward Small production which stars Dennis o Keefe and includes Jane Randolph Mary Mead and Alfred Ryder efforts have been made to keep the Story plausible and the action convincing. Since the plot is based on records known in the Treasury department files As the Shanghai paper Case producer Aubrey Schenk s aim to preserve authenticity has with some embroidery been achieved. If one forgives the old technique of using a sentimental hypochondriac As the head of the gang of counterfeiting toughs one can forgive much else in the film. It often Stoops to outright Corn but within the limits of the conventional it is no worse and sometimes better than a dozen others of its kind. Dennis o Keefe never for a moment betrays the fact that he is any thing but a very honest if often Tough Guy and nobody except a by Hollywood could watch him without sensing this integrity. However the hypochondriac gang Leader is smoothly played by Wallace Ford in spite of the Fli siness of the role and the supporting quite Well in the remaining 20. ". I Dennis and Tony Alfred Ryder Are assigned by Treasury department to break up a Large counterfeiting ring. They track Down a gang of big Foj Money operators and posing As fake note paddlers join gang in Detroit. Weekend april it. 1�u
