bungle chart or bunco squad?

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Dialogue from an old US movie (1956)

Truck driver: How do you like that? The Crown Prince, my foot! He'll lose his license, that doc will.
Policeman: Believe me, if I was the Commissioner, I'd put him in the ***** (bungle chart?) (bunco squad)
Truck driver: Oh, if you were the Commissioner, big man!


I can't be sure of the two words that I substituted for ****
I think that it could also be "bunco chart", if it means a list of swindlers, but I am not sure if it is correct to use chart instead of list or file.

Please, watch the short youtube clip (13 seconds) here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gpKYe3YyZH4
 
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Believe me, if I was the commissioner, I'd pull him in on the bunco charge.

Please cite the film by name as well as year.
 

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Thanks GoesStation, it makes completely sense. The film is Fright, 1956. It doesn't have subtitles in any language.
 
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It could be my ignorance, but the word bunco is new to me and I haven't heard it used in BrE.
 

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It could be my ignorance, but the word bunco is new to me and I haven't heard it used in BrE.
I know it from contexts like the linked film clip. It was American police slang for "fraud" in the 1930s through the '50s, if not longer. Police anti-fraud units were called bunco squads.
 

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I'm only familiar with "bunco" from American movies and TV series.
 

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From the Merriam-Webster Dictionary:

Synonyms of Bunco (or Bunko)

con,
fiddle
[chiefly British],
flimflam,
fraud,
gyp,
hustle,
scam,
shell game,
sting,
swindle
 
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