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Release year: 1985

Storyline

A Secret Service agent becomes obsessed with catching a ruthless counterfeiter.

Top credits

Directors

William Friedkin

Writers

Cast

William Petersen — Richard Chance
Willem Dafoe — Eric Masters
John Pankow — John Vukovich
Debra Feuer — Bianca Torres

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Did you know

• Despite the crew's best efforts, some of the counterfeit bills made for the film got into circulation. The bills' quality was very, very good, but the Treasury seal on the counterfeits used the letter X, which is not a valid Federal Reserve Bank letter. The Secret Service picked up X bills for quite a while after filming wrapped.

• During the opening, when Eric Masters (Willem Dafoe) is printing money, the film crew was actually creating counterfeit bills. A convicted counterfeiter was on set showing them how it's done. They were filming out in the desert, and Dafoe said that every time a helicopter flew over the building, they were sure it was the police coming to arrest them all.

• The car chase sequence took six weeks to shoot. It was the last thing shot, apparently so that if anything happened to the principal actors, the filmmakers would, at least, have the bulk of their movie completed without having to replace anybody.