- T-Men
Infobox_Film
name = T-Men
image_size = 260
caption = Lobby card
producer =Aubrey Schenck
director =Anthony Mann
writer =John C. Higgins Story:Virginia Kellogg
starring =Dennis O'Keefe Mary Meade Alfred Ryder Wallace Ford June Lockhart Charles McGraw Jane Randolph Art Smith
music =Paul Sawtell
cinematography =John Alton
editing = Fred Allen
distributor =Eagle-Lion Films
released =December 15 1947
runtime = 92 minutes
country =United States
language = English
amg_id = 1:48286
imdb_id = 0039881|"T-Men" (1947) is a
semidocumentary stylefilm noir shot inblack and white . The film was directed byAnthony Mann withcinematography by noted noir cameramanJohn Alton . [imdb title|id=0039881|title=T-Men.]The
B-movie is featured in "" (1992) documentary for the drama's use of lighting. [ [http://www.answers.com/topic/t-men-film?cat=entertainment Answers.com article on T-Men] ]A year later, director Mann used the film's male lead, Dennis O'Keefe, in "Raw Deal."
Plot
The story is about two
U.S. Treasury agents who go undercover in an attempt to break a counterfeiting ring.The agents try to join the gang by posing as counterfeiters from out of town. They eventually join the gang but the stakes are set even higher when one of the agents is killed by the gang while the other undercover T-man watches in horror.
Cast
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Dennis O'Keefe as Dennis O'Brien
*Mary Meade as Evangeline
*Alfred Ryder as Tony Genaro
*Wallace Ford as The Schemer
*June Lockhart as Mary Genaro
*Charles McGraw as Moxie
*Jane Randolph as Diana Simpson
* Art Smith as GreggNotable quote
* Dennis O'Brien: Did you ever spend ten nights in a Turkish bath looking for a man? Don't.
Remake
The film was remade in 1969, as "The File of The Golden Goose", directed by
Sam Wanamaker and starringYul Brynner andEdward Woodward and this time set inLondon ,England instead of the United States. [ [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0064328/movieconnections IMDB movie connections] ]References
External links
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* [http://www.noiroftheweek.com/2008/07/t-men-1947.html "T-Men"] at Film Noir of the Week
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