The Brasher Doubloon (1947)

The Brasher Doubloon (1947) (DVD) (*)

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Language Selections:
English ( Mono )
French ( Subtitles )

Product Origin/Format:
France ( PAL/Region 2 )

Running Time:
73 min

Aspect Ratio:
Fullscreen

Special Features:
Interactive Menu
Scene Access
Black & White

Movie filmed in 1947 and produced in:
United States ( USA, Canada )

Directed By:
John Brahm

Written By:
Dorothy Bennett
Leonard Praskins

Actors:
George Montgomery ..... Philip Marlowe
Nancy Guild ..... Merle Davis
Conrad Janis ..... Leslie Murdock
Roy Roberts ..... Police Lt. Breeze
Fritz Kortner ..... Rudolph Vannier
Florence Bates ..... Mrs. Elizabeth Murdock
Marvin Miller ..... Vince Blair

Synopsis:

Philip Marlowe gets involved when limp-wristed and snidely Leslie Murdock steals a rare doubloon from his mother to give to a newsreel photographer in exchange for film that is being used for blackmail purposes. Marlowe's involvement has him encounter a girl who goes into hysterics when touched by a man; a husband-killing woman; three corpses; a couple of scuffles in which he gets his clock cleaned; a secretary who thinks she has killed her boss, which is the reason Raymond Chandler called his story "The High Window", and a son (who qualifies as a S.O.B. by two definitions) who blackmails his widowed mother. So, what's not to like.

Private detective Philip Marlowe is hired by a wealthy widow, Elizabeth Murdock, to find a stolen coin called the Brasher Doubloon. Marlowe ends up in the middle of a much more complicated case, one that involves blackmail and murder, forcing him to deal with a number of strange individuals. That includes Merle Davis, a deranged secretary to Murdock, whose own role in the matter is considerably more sinister than it seems.

Philip Marlowe solves the mystery of the theft of a rare gold coin and of the hold of the client over her secretary.

This product was added to our catalog on Tuesday 31 May, 2022.