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You'd be surprised what you can learn in the slammer!
A convict who managed to print $1 million in counterfeit bills in the prison print shop hatches a scheme to swap them for real money.
Money to Burn
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27 Oct 1973
- TV ABC
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Airing as an ABC Movie of the Week, this cute caper comedy stars E.G. Marshall as a convict who counterfeits a million dollars while behind bars and Mildred Natwick as his wife and accomplice who works with two released convicts (Cleavon Little and Alejandro Rey) to switch the counterfeit bills with some that are awaiting incineration by the government. The heist plan and methods are ingenious and even include magnetic boots so that Rey can walk on the ceiling to avoid a sensor plate on the floor! Very Mission: Impossible (the movie) twenty years early. The cast has terrific chemistry and there are lots of little personality quirks that make the characters memorable. The general storyline could easily have been…