The Brasher Doubloon (the movie that is)

tommy44

While flipping through a list of Turner Classic Movies last night because I was sick of watching the news I ended up watching "The Brasher Doubloon", a 1947 Twentieth Century Fox black and white classic film-noir. Three people end up dead as L.A. detective Philip Marlowe attempts to find the real story behind a missing Brasher Doubloon. Several scenes with coins including trays kept in a walk-in vault at the home of the woman who hires him to find it and a couple of others at the skid row coin shop of numismatist Elisha Morningstar.

I got the willies every time Marlowe would flip the coin like it was some sort of coin toss token.

Worth watching if you have a little over an hour to spare.

WillieBoyd2

The Brasher Doubloon title

The film "The Brasher Doubloon" is a pretty good 1940's detective mystery.

I have a writeup about the film on my website under "Coins in Movies".

I first saw the film on television when I was a kid. It is now on DVD.

The film is based on a Raymond Chandler novel "The High Window" published in 1942.

The story was also filmed in 1942 as "Time to Kill".

Walter Breen (in his Encyclopedia) said that the coin in the 1947 film "The Brasher Doubloon" was a fake.

The Brasher Doubloon prop replica coin

I was so disappointed.

coinsarefun

Hm, kinda embarrassed as I never knew about this movie

Regulated

Not even a good fake.

JazzmanJAB

ricko

Not much of a TV watcher and do not go to theaters...However, my wife does watch old movies from time to time... I will ask her to watch for this one and if she finds it, I will take time from my otherwise hectic lifestyle and sit a spell... Cheers, RickO

CaptHenway

My late and unlamented ex-boss Walter Perschke owned a poster for this movie. Of course, he also owned a Brasher Doubloon.