Dobrodruzství kriminalistiky

- Season 3

(1991)

USA 1850: one man tries to prevent race fraud by employing the new invention of photography in order to create identity papers for race-horses. The escalating rivalry between two horse-breeders will soon give him the opportunity to put his method to the test.

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This is based on the Portuguese Bank Note Crisis of 1925, caused when criminal Arturo Alves Reis (Teply) forged documentation which persuaded the British printing firm Waterlow & Sons to produce nearly as many 500-escudo banknotes as were legitimately in circulation, as Waterlow were the official printers for the Bank of Portugal. The notes were not forgeries, as such, just not officially authorised.

The notes were not forgeries, as such, just not officially authorised.