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The IMF's target is DuBruis, a corrupt financial speculator in an African nation. Phelps & Co. get DuBruis's attention with counterfeit money, virtually the same as the nation's currency except for the quality of the paper. The elaborate game plan calls for Cinnamon to tempt DuBruis with supposed insider information about a mining company and Phelps and Rollin posing as criminals who've developed computerized counterfeiting. Barney is also on hand to make the "computer" work.

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    • Author: I ℓ٥ﻻ ﻉ√٥υ
    Question: Why can't one of the white guys ever squeeze into a little, tiny space to engineer part of the scam without the bad guys knowing? But noooo, it's always the brilliant and ever patient Barney who has to put up with claustrophobic circumstances. I kept wondering what would happen if he fell asleep inside the darned thing. ("Pardon me while I take a nap in the counterfeiting machine.") Seriously (for the racially sensitive: the above was a joke), I admire trailblazer Greg Morris and the writers of MI for creating a believable and positive black character at a time when racial equality in Hollywood was still a rare occurrence.
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    • Author: Sharpmane
    The other review for this particular episode of "Mission: Impossible" rightly points out that Barney usually got the crappy jobs where he had to crawl into tiny spaces, get locked in trunks and the like--and this episode is no different! However, on the plus side, they do let Barney kill someone--a rare even on this show!

    DuBruis (Brock Peters) is a government minister in the African nation of Ghalea--and he's totally corrupt. So the IM Force wants to take advantage of his greed to destroy him. Using a complicated scheme, DuBruis is convinced that some folks have a computer that can make perfect copies of the Ghalean currency. At the same time, they create a fake 'confidential news story' that a HUGE strike has been made at a copper mine. So, allowing his greed to run away with him, DuBruis plans to finance buying millions of dollars of Ambuli Copper using counterfeit funds!

    Apart from seeing Barney take a life, some other things to look for in this episode is one of the very worst uses of a stunt double in TV history when Rollin is supposedly having a fight with Barney at the top of the stairs--and the guy is so obviously NOT Rollin! Another thing to not is the 'mobile computer'! While it was tiny by 1960s standards, it looks amazingly silly today--and HUGE!

    If you can ignore the bad use of the stunt double, "The Money Machine" is a great episode--and I found myself laughing out loud when the show ended, as it was juicy and devilishly clever!
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    • Author: Lightbinder
    Well,"The Money Machine" takes us to an episode wherein Jim Phelps and his IMF team goes against an unscrupulous financier in Africa named DuBruis.

    As the IMF team of Jim that consists of Cinnamon, Rollin, Barney decides to put a trap on DuBruis,who was able to locate the same paper material used for money, to produce counterfeit money.Unfortunately,he was able to escape the trap set up for him.In the succeeding action,the IMF was able to produce a money machine to lure the villain into captivity.

    Well,it was an interesting episode particularly as it uses computers in the so-called money machine.This was probably something that people at present relate to particularly in the age of computers and the internet as this was written 50 years ago.Too bad that the viewers would somehow have mixed feelings the villains' look of complete amazement by the wonders done by computers back then.

    The force takes on an unscrupulous financier in Africa, an unusual and refreshing milieu. Unfortunately the villains are a little too quick to fall into this trap, and the IMF "miracle machine" – a computer that can perfectly counterfeit currency – is kind of pathetic. Succeeds mostly on its sharp look and its outside con, which provides good roles for the team.
  • Episode cast overview:
    Peter Graves Peter Graves - James Phelps
    Martin Landau Martin Landau - Rollin Hand
    Barbara Bain Barbara Bain - Cinnamon Carter
    Greg Morris Greg Morris - Barney Collier
    Peter Lupus Peter Lupus - Willy Armitage (credit only)
    Brock Peters Brock Peters - Walter DuBruis
    Michael Shillo Michael Shillo - Raf Tagoor
    Davis Roberts Davis Roberts - Anton Bouchet
    Rockne Tarkington Rockne Tarkington - Paul Giroux
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