Sunday | October 4, 2015 5:00 pm

T-Men

Screening on Film

Directed by Anthony Mann.
With Dennis O’Keefe, Wallace Ford, Alfred Ryder.
US, 1947, 16mm, black & white, 92 min.
Print source: George Eastman House

Anthony Mann was a master of the grim and shockingly creative violence that abounds in his police-procedural thriller T-Men. Part of the cycle of “semi-documentary” films that flourished in the late 1940s and early 1950s, T-Men is curiously split between its detached observation of a federal investigation into an international counterfeit ring and its subjectively intense point of view of the Treasury agents playing a deadly, duplicitous game to crack the criminal organization.