| T-Men | |
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| Directed by | Anthony Mann |
| Screenplay by | John C. Higgins |
| Story by | Virginia Kellogg |
| Produced by | Aubrey Schenck |
| Starring | Dennis O'Keefe Mary Meade Alfred Ryder |
| Narrated by | Reed Hadley |
| Cinematography | John Alton |
| Edited by | Fred Allen |
| Music by | Paul Sawtell |
| Color process | Black and white |
Production companies | Edward Small Productions Bryan Foy Productions |
| Distributed by | Eagle-Lion Films |
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Running time | 92 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $424,000[1] or $450,000[2][3] |
| Box office | $1.6 million (US/Canada)[1][3][2] $2.5 million (worldwide)[2] |
T-Men is a 1947 semidocumentary and police procedural style film noir about United States Treasury agents. The film was directed by Anthony Mann and shot by noted noir cameraman John Alton. The production features Dennis O'Keefe, Mary Meade, Alfred Ryder, Wallace Ford, June Lockhart and Charles McGraw.[4] A year later, director Mann used the film's male lead, Dennis O'Keefe, in Raw Deal.[5]
The film was endorsed by the U.S. Treasury Department: the opening credits are displayed over an image of the department's seal, then former Chief Coordinator of the department's six agencies Elmer Lincoln Irey delivers a monologue describing the objectives of those agencies and lauding their accomplishments. He describes the movie as a composite case from its files entitled "The Shanghai Paper Case".
- ^ a b Balio, Tino. United Artists: The Company That Changed the Film Industry, University of Wisconsin Press, 1987, p. 26.
- ^ a b c Variety 16 June 1948 p4
- ^ a b "EL Proves". Variety. 11 August 1948. p. 22. Retrieved 9 August 2024.
- ^ T-Men at the AFI Catalog of Feature Films.
- ^ Raw Deal at the AFI Catalog of Feature Films.