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The Fake

Release Date:September 25, 1953

Running Time:80 min

Genres:Drama, Crime

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Cast

Dennis O'Keefe Coleen Gray Hugh Williams Guy Middleton John Laurie Gerald Case Seymour Green Eliot Makeham Stanley Van Beers Ellen Pollock Morris Sweden Dora Bryan

Top billed cast (via TMDB).

Synopsis

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.

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