The Brasher Doubloon

The Brasher Doubloon (known in the UK as The High Window) is a 1947 film noir based on the novel The High Window by Raymond Chandler.

Fred MacMurray, Victor Mature, and Dana Andrews were all mentioned at different times in the Los Angeles Times as having been cast as Philip Marlowe in the film before the studio settled on George Montgomery.

The plot revolves around a man being pushed out of a high window by a woman while the incident was caught on film.

The movie is technically a remake of Time to Kill, a 1942 film which adapted The High Window as a Michael Shayne adventure starring Lloyd Nolan.

Plot

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.

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
• Florence Bates as Mrs. Elizabeth Murdock
• Marvin Miller as Vince Blair

External links

• The Brasher Doubloon at the Internet Movie Database
• The Brasher Doubloon at the TCM Movie Database
• The Brasher Doubloon at AllRovi