This interesting episode of MGM's long-running CRIME DOES NOT PAY series concerns itself with counterfeiting, the production of fake money and its distribution, from the engraving of the plates, to its distribution, through the inevitable unmasking of the villains with much peering through microscopes and button-pressing, because criminals never prosper. That's what the series title tells us, after all.
People may note with some puzzlement the title at the beginning which informs the audience that the Secret Service gave special permission to show real money on the screen. People think of the Secret Service as guarding the U. S. President. Although it does that too, as an arm of the Treasury Department, it mostly concerns itself with policing money. One of the laws forbids reproducing money.... after all, that's what counterfeiting is, and for decades, showing real money on the screen was deemed as a variety of the crime.
People may note with some puzzlement the title at the beginning which informs the audience that the Secret Service gave special permission to show real money on the screen. People think of the Secret Service as guarding the U. S. President. Although it does that too, as an arm of the Treasury Department, it mostly concerns itself with policing money. One of the laws forbids reproducing money.... after all, that's what counterfeiting is, and for decades, showing real money on the screen was deemed as a variety of the crime.