The File of the Golden Goose  

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The File of the Golden Goose is a 1969 British thriller film directed by Sam Wanamaker and starring Yul Brynner, Charles Gray and Edward Woodward. Its plot involves an American detective being sent to Britain to track down a major international criminal.

It is a reworking of the 1947 film T-Men, directed by Anthony Mann.

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Plot Summary

A trail of counterfeit hundred dollar bills has been discovered in several places around the world. When this comes to the attention of the Secret Service, they assign one of their top men, Pete Novak (Yul Brunner) on the case of finding out who is producing and distributing them.

Pete realizes that this is an assignment that demands his full attention, so he immediately breaks up with his girlfriend in preparation for the journey he must take. Before Pete can even begin his search he is ambushed by a gang of hoodlums trying to shoot him down as they drive by outside his home. He concludes the gang must have been tipped off by someone on the inside of the service about his new assignment. He manages to kill them off, but discovers afterwards that the killers has accidentally shot and killed his ex-girlfriend in the process.

The killing of the girlfriend makes the whole assignment very personal for Pete. To begin the search for the counterfeit distibutor he travels across the Atlantic to London, England, to visit the Scotland Yard headquarters, since they are in charge of the counterfeit investigation in Europe. There he meets up with Superintendent Sloane (John Barrie) of the Yard. Sloane gets a partner for Pete in another ingestigator by the name of Arthur Thompson (Edward Woodward). Arthur is a very happily married jolly old copper, who manages to ignore all of Pete’s remarks about the inapropriate of being a married man working as an agent or policeman.

Pete and Arthur starts infiltrating the counterfeit organization, posing as members of the Golden Goose gang - a gang that has been all but erased from the face of the earth by the police. They use their fake identities to hide their undercover infiltration for the head of the illegal operation, The Owl Harrison (Charles Gray), and are ultimately successful in stopping the counterfeit operation.

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