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The Brasher Doubloon (known in the UK as The High Window) is a 1947 American crime film noir directed by John Brahm and starring George Montgomery and Nancy Guild. [1] It is based on the 1942 novel The High Window by Raymond Chandler . Fred MacMurray, Victor Mature, and Dana Andrews were all mentioned at different times as having been cast as ...
- 20th Century Fox
- Robert Bassler
The Brasher Doubloon: Directed by John Brahm. With George Montgomery, Nancy Guild, Conrad Janis, Roy Roberts. Detective Philip Marlowe encounters a variety of characters while checking on why Leslie Murdock stole a rare doubloon from his mother.
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- Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
- John Brahm
- 1947-02-06
The Brasher Doubloon is a rare American doubloon of eight escudos worth sixteen dollars, privately minted in and after 1787. History [ edit ] In 1787, Ephraim Brasher, [1] a goldsmith and silversmith, submitted a petition to the State of New York to mint copper coins.
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The original doubloon was minted in 1787 by Ephraim Brasher for the state of New York. Although the Twentieth Century-Fox Produced Scripts Collection, also at UCLA, indicates that Richard Macaulay and Jerome Cady worked on the film's screenplay, the extent of their contribution to the released picture has not been determined.
- John Brahm, Hal Herman
- George Montgomery
Jun 22, 2023 · The Brasher Doubloon (1947) Mrs. Elizabeth Bright Murdock hires Marlowe to find an old rare coin, the Brasher Doubloon, that belonged in her deceased husband's collection. Marlowe begins investigating, but quickly finds himself entangled in a series of unexplained murders. Mrs. Elizabeth Bright Murdock hires Marlowe to find an old rare coin ...
The Brasher Doubloon is directed by John Brahm and adapted to the screen by Dorothy Hannah and Leonard Praskins. It stars George Montgomery, Nancy Guild, Conrad Janis, Roy Roberts, Fritz Kortner and Florence Bates. Music is by David Buttolph and Alfred Newman and cinematography by Lloyd Ahern.
Philip Marlowe is hired when a rare doubloon is stolen, and he soon discovers that it is being used for blackmail purposes. Marlowe's involvement has him encounter a girl who goes into hysterics when touched by a man; a domineering mother; three corpses; a couple of scuffles in which he gets his clock cleaned; a secretary who killed her boss ...
