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The Brasher Doubloon (1947)

Crime | 72 minutes
2,88 16 votes

Genre: Crime / Filmnoir

Duration: 72 minuten

Alternative title: The High Window

Country: United States

Directed by: John Brahm

Starst: George Montgomery, Nancy Guild and Florence Bates

IMDb score: 6,5 (1.581)

Releasedate: 6 February 1947

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The Brasher Doubloon plot

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

Detective Philip Marlowe (George Montgomery) is hired by the wealthy, eccentric widow Mrs. Murdock (Florence Bates) to track down a valuable stolen coin and return it to her. Marlowe soon becomes entangled in a web of blackmail and murder.

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Actors and actresses

Philip Marlowe

Merle Davis

Mrs. Murdock

Leslie Murdock

Dr. Moss (uncredited)

Police Sgt. Spangler (uncredited)

Shaw (uncredited)

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wendyvortex

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Philip Marlowe! I didn't know this story either. Nice again with Marlowe's voice-over who provides some commentary on the events. About an investigation into a missing valuable coin. During his investigation, the bodies pile up. George Montgomery is slightly less tough and cynical than Humphrey Bogart, who played Marlowe in The Big Sleep a year earlier. You can still live with it. But this is also a bit of a B-movie, resulting in a running time of 72 minutes, which is too short to make the story nice and complicated. Nice whodunit with a noir atmosphere.

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Roger Thornhill

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A decent attempt to portray Raymond Chandler's Los Angeles, with the excessive sun outside and the stench of corpses, lies, and corruption inside. The novel's complicated plot has been simplified in an acceptable way so that it all fits into the plus or minus 70 minutes of a B-movie, and there are a few nice actors in the colorful supporting roles of the villains, but it is just embarrassing to see how George Montgomery starts picking up the first woman he comes across as soon as he steps into his employer's house, and Nancy Guild really can't act for the life of her. I admit, I am biased, because Chandler is one of my favorite writers, and right before this you already had two perfect private eyes in the form of Bogart as Marlowe in the amazing The Big Sleep and Robert Mitchum in the equally amazing Out of the Past, but even without comparing George Montgomery to those two heavyweights, I really find him a huge lightweight with that cowardly little mustache and that fawning and flirting and that nonsense about Merle being his patient. As soon as Marlowe and Merle are together, this is more of a comedy, whereas it actually gets reasonably exciting when Marlowe goes out on his own, and this being torn between two ideas does the film no good as far as I am concerned.

Incidentally, Chandler's novel on which The Brasher Doubloon is based had already been adapted into a film five years earlier as Time to Kill, and the studio apparently did not deem it opportune to give this unofficial remake the same title, but why not just choose Chandler's title The High Window? Publisher Alfred A. Knopf certainly did not like Chandler's original title The Brasher Doubloon: "booksellers might pronounce Brasher as brassiere." Chandler himself had not looked at it that way yet, but "I can see your point now."

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