The Counterfeiters

John Sutton is a Scotland Yard Inspector tracing a counterfeiting ring to California, where he starts to. Operate with the Treasury Department. The bad guy at the center seems to be Hugh Beaumont, who's hooked up with Doris Merrick, who seems to want to double-cross everyone, including Lon Chaney Jr., playing Lenny from OF MICE AND MEN, with George O'Hanlon as his comic George.

It's a foolishly inconsistent comedy-drama, in which every character seems to switch around except die Beaumont, who seems to be a consistent bad guy. The records indicate this sat on the shelf for a year after shooting. Since the director is Sam Newfield, and the screenwriter Fred Myton, I'm going to conclude this was shot for PRC and was considered too bad to release... but not for 20th Century-Fox, which probably needed one or two films to fill out it's disappearing B production.

Some comment should be made about the editing, which looks like the guys in charge of that for their hands on an optical printer and squealed with delight: their delight, not the audience's.