The Fake
Crime
Drama
A RACKET'S A RACKET ...and A MURDER IS A MURDER!
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.
1953-09-25
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Cast
Dennis O'Keefe as Paul Mitchell
Coleen Gray as Mary Mason
Hugh Williams as Sir Richard Aldingham
Guy Middleton as Smith
John Laurie as Henry Mason
Eliot Makeham as George
Stanley Van Beers as Cartwright
Ellen Pollock as Miss Fossett
Dora Bryan as Barmaid
Michael Ward as Art Salesman
Leslie Phillips as Boy Student
Billie Whitelaw as Waitress
Frank Atkinson as uncredited
Tom Clegg as uncredited
Guy Deghy as uncredited
Johnnie Schofield as uncredited
Dido Plumb as Museum Visitor (uncredited)