The Fake (1953)
The Fake (1953)
Plot.
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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Cast & Crew.
Dennis O'Keefe
Paul Mitchell
Coleen Gray
Mary Mason
Hugh Williams
Sir Richard Aldingham
Guy Middleton
Smith
John Laurie
Henry Mason
Gerald Case
Randall
Seymour Green
Weston
Eliot Makeham
George
Stanley Van Beers
Cartwright
Ellen Pollock
Miss Fossett
Morris Sweden
Pettigrew
Dora Bryan
Barmaid
Arnold Bell
Police Inspector / Bearded Tramp
Michael Ward
Art Salesman
Clifford Buckton
Lodging House Keeper
Leslie Phillips
Boy Student
Marianne Noelle
Girl Student
Billie Whitelaw
Waitress
John Wadham
Thug
Frank Atkinson
uncredited
Tom Clegg
uncredited
Guy Deghy
uncredited
Harold Sanderson
uncredited
Johnnie Schofield
uncredited
Godfrey Grayson
Director
Leonard Sharp
uncredited
James Daplyn
Story
Patrick Kirwan
Screenplay
Charles Hasse
Editor
Ilona Kabos
Original Music Composer
Cedric Williams
Director of Photography
Leo Wilkins
Sound
Denis Wreford
Art Direction
Theo Lageard
Production Manager
Angela Allen
Continuity
Harold Hayson
Camera Operator
Robert Faloon
Production Accountant
Ambrose Grayson
Associate Producer
Jim Connock
Editor
U. P. Hutchinson
Makeup Artist
Media.
Details.
This Movie Is About.
painting
art gallery
art theft
noir
Wiki.
The Fake is a 1953 British crime mystery directed by Godfrey Grayson and starring Dennis O'Keefe and Coleen Gray. An American detective tries to prevent the theft of a priceless painting from the Tate Gallery in London.
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