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The Fake (1953)

Directed by Godfrey Grayson

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Overview

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.

Length 80 minutes

Actors

Coleen Gray | John Laurie | Billie Whitelaw | Leslie Phillips | Hugh Williams | Michael Ward | Dora Bryan | Frank Atkinson | Dennis O'Keefe | Guy Deghy | Ellen Pollock | Arnold Bell | Eliot Makeham | Leonard Sharp | Guy Middleton | Gerald Case | Johnnie Schofield | Stanley Van Beers | Morris Sweden | Beatrice Kane | Tom Clegg | Seymour Green | Clifford Buckton | Marianne Noelle | John Wadham | Harold Sanderson