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The Brasher Doubloon

1947, Movie, NR, 72 mins

The Brasher Doubloon: Review

BRASHER DOUBLOON, THE | HIGH WINDOW, THE

Don't let the obscurity of the title scare you away. A stolen gold coin brings Raymond Chandler's hard-boiled private dick Philip Marlowe (Montgomery) into the employ of an eccentric and wealthy widow. While on the trail of the coin, he stumbles into blackmail and murder and suffers a savage beating at the hands of Kortner, one of the weird creatures populating Chandler's off-center world. Finally, while trying to straighten out a blackmail scheme involving Bates's mad secre... read more leave a comment