The Brasher Doubloon
1947 · Movie · 72 min. · United States
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.
Direction John Brahm
Cast George Montgomery · Nancy Guild · Conrad Janis · Roy Roberts · Fritz Kortner · Florence Bates · Marvin Miller
Soundtrack David Buttolph
Screenplay Dorothy Bennett · Leonard Praskins · Raymond Chandler
Cinematography Lloyd Ahern
Original title The Brasher Doubloon
6.3
80 votes (FilmAffinity)
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