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Based on the true story of Emerich Juettner, an elderly junk dealer who, like the character in the movie, only used to print counterfeit $1 bills to make ends meet. For 10 years, Juettner eluded the Secret Service's efforts to find him. He was finally caught in January, 1948, after a fire forced him to vacate his apartment on New York's Upper West Side, and move in with his daughter in Queens. The firemen who put out the fire left some of Juettner's belongings in a nearby alley. A few weeks later, a group of local boys found some of his $1 bills in the alley, realized they were fakes (the name "Washington" was misspelled as "Wahsington" on the bills), and turned them over to police. Juettner was arrested, but only sentenced to nine months in jail and a $1 fine. When 20th Century Fox bought the movie rights to his story, Juettner received more money than he had ever made as a counterfeiter.

Ann returns to the art store outside of which a man had been annoying her, after which he was questioned by a policeman. The woman in the shop tells her that the man showed ID to the policeman that showed he was a Treasury agent. Although the scene between Ann and the agent indicated that the woman could not hear what people outside said, and she was certainly too far away to see the man's ID, the scene ended with the agent and the officer talking in the store's doorway, and the woman could easily have spoken with the officer afterward.

Opening credits appear on dollar bills.

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