The Brasher Doubloon

The Brasher Doubloon (1947)

Some women can't stand cats ... with me it's men!

Mrs. Elizabeth Bright Murdock hires Marlowe to find an old rare coin, the Brasher Doubloon, that belonged in her deceased husband's collection. Marlowe begins investigating, but quickly finds himself entangled in a series of unexplained murders.

Date of release
1947-02-06
TMDB
6.0 / 10 (41)
Runtime
1h 12m
Genres
Mystery, Crime
Director
John Brahm

Casting

Interesting facts

  • Based on: The High Window

The Brasher Doubloon is a 1947 American crime film noir directed by John Brahm and starring George Montgomery and Nancy Guild. It is based on the 1942 novel The High Window by Raymond Chandler.

Production

The novel was published in 1942. The New York Times said: "Chandler has given us a detective who is hard boiled enough to be convincing without being disgustingly tough and that is no mean achievement."

Film rights were bought in May 1942 by 20th Century-Fox, who used it as the basis of a script for Time to Kill (1942), a movie in their B-picture series about Michael Shayne.

Following the success of the Chandler adaptation Murder My Sweet (1944) and Chandler's adaptation of Double Indemnity (1944), the author became in fashion in Hollywood: Warners filmed The Big Sleep, MGM did The Lady in the Lake (1946), and Paramount filmed a Chandler original, The Blue Dahlia (1946). Fox decided to film The High Window again, this time more faithfully.

In May 1945, they announced that Leonard Praskins was writing a script and Robert Bassler would produce. Fred MacMurray, who had been in Double Indemnity, would play Marlowe. In October 1945 Fox announced that John Payne would play the lead role and that filming would begin in January 1946. In December there was yet another casting change: Victor Mature was given the role. John Brahm was assigned to direct.

In July 1946 the title was changed to The Brasher Doubloon.

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