Geheimagent T (1947)

Geheimagent T: Directed by Anthony Mann. With Dennis O’Keefe, Mary Meade, Alfred Ryder, Wallace Ford. Two US Treasury agents hunt a successful counterfeiting ring.

“The oldest federal law enforcement outfit going are the Treasury Men, those intrepid folks who see that no one avoids paying the federal duties on various items or counterfeits our money. That was the subject that Director Anthony Mann decided to tackle in the documentary style made famous over at 20th Century Fox in such films as Boomerang, The Street With No Name, and The House on 92nd Street.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eOver at Fox it was done for effect. But as good as T-Men is and it is a crackling good film, letu0026#39;s not forget the reason for John Altonu0026#39;s camera work with lights and shadows is because he and Mann were working on a B picture. These guys got creative because they had to. Later on Anthony Mann in the Fifties got some real good size budgets to work with in those technicolor westerns he did with James Stewart. Youu0026#39;d hardly know it was the same director.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eT-Men involves treasury agents Dennis Ou0026#39;Keefe and Alfred Ryder going undercover to get a very slick group of counterfeiters. The murder of an informer brings the Treasury Department to the decision to use undercover men. They meet all kinds of criminal types of both sexes and in good noir style the tension mounts before they too become informed on.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eOur good guys blend well into the criminal world in their performances. But the outstanding acting in T-Men is done by hit man Charles McGraw and Wallace Ford who is aptly nicknamed Schemer in this film. u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eThis is definitely a film for fans of the noir genre.”