The Brasher Doubloon
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The Brasher Doubloon | |
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The Brasher Doubloon lobby card |
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Directed by | John Brahm |
Produced by | Robert Bassler |
Written by | Raymond Chandler (novel, The High Window) Dorothy Bennett Leonard Praskins (adaptation) |
Starring | George Montgomery Nancy Guild Conrad Janis |
Music by | David Buttolph |
Cinematography | Lloyd Ahern |
Distributed by | Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation |
Release date(s) | February 6, 1947 (U.S. release) |
Running time | 72 min. |
Country | US |
Language | English |
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The Brasher Doubloon (known in the UK as The High Window) is a 1947 black-and-white film based on the novel The High Window by Raymond Chandler. This movie is not considered as quite as good as The Big Sleep or Murder, My Sweet.[citation needed]
The Brasher Doubloon, the rare coin upon which the action turns, is a real coin.
[edit] Cast
- George Montgomery as Philip Marlowe
- Nancy Guild as Merle Davis
- Conrad Janis as Leslie Murdock
- Roy Roberts as Lt. Breeze
- Fritz Kortner as Vannier