
The $5, 000, 000 Counterfeiting Plot
Summary
A sinuous fable of ink-stained guilt unfurls when a swaggering counterfeiter—midnight press humming like a devil’s metronome—slips his own flawless forgery into the unwitting palm of his flaxen-haired child; she, thrilled by the crisp rustle of unearned promise, parades the note into a satin-lit boutique and trades it for a diaphanous gown that whispers against her knees like a secret. The bill, restless as mercury, drifts from till to treasury, where Secret Service hawks—lenses glinting like obsidian talons—trace the paper’s ghostly watermark back to a labyrinthine cellar lit by sputtering gas-jets and stacked with engraved plates that gleam like sacrificial altars. In a cascading domino of slamming doors and snapped handcuffs, the entire hydra-headed syndicate—scowling engravers, velvet-voiced middle-men, a kingpin whose smile is a nickel-plated guillotine—is hauled into the merciless glare of justice, their empire of illusion dismantled one radiant greenback at a time.
Synopsis
A member of a counterfeiting gang gives a forged note to his daughter. When she spends it on a dress the note ends up in the hands of the secret service, who then bring the entire gang to justice.
Director
Arthur Morrison, Ezra Walck, Joseph Sullivan, Henry Driscoll, Howard Missimer, James Ayling, John Sharkey, William Cavanaugh, Jack Drumier, Jean Acker, John Ransom, Hector Dion, Frank Carrington, Ilean Hume, Harry Lillford, Cliff Saum, Glen White, Edward Walton, Georgia O'Ramey, Charles E. Graham




