Near the end of the movie, John Hodiak as Ned Trent hands Angela Lansbury as Em a wad of bills in an extreme close up insert shot. The "movie money" bills are Mexican Banco de Sonora Hermosillo 50 Peso notes from the 1897-1911 period, bearing the child portrait of Hortencia Corral Velez, the daughter of bank shareholder Ramón Corral. Until 1958 the United States prohibited any full scale photographic reproduction of its paper money. This included movie film because it was feared that a single frame of the negative could be enlarged onto a printing plate from which passable counterfeits could be made. Film companies therefore had to use substitutes. After the Mexican revolution masses of worthless but colorful notes were dumped on the market and many acquired by the property departments of American film studios.
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