Selected by the Cinematographers Branch.

Director William Friedkin teamed up with former Secret Service agent Gerald Petievich to adapt Petievich’s 1984 novel about two government agents who risk everything to bring down a master counterfeiter. Cinematographer Robby Müller, a longtime collaborator of Wim Wenders, gave the film a memorable, smog-tinged look, and shot a thrilling car chase to rival the one in Friedkin’s The French Connection (1971). British New Wave band Wang Chung provided the pulsating original score.