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 o... more

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  • Feb 6, 1947

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  • 72 min (43 hs )

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John Brahm

John Brahm (August 17, 1893 - October 13, 1982) was a film and television director possibly best known today for directing a dozen of the original Twilight Zone episodes including the now classic "Time Enough at Last". His films include The Undying Monster (1942), The Lodger (1944), Hangover Square...

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The High Window

The High Window is a 1942 novel written by Raymond Chandler. It is his third novel to feature Los Angeles private detective Philip Marlowe. The story begins when Mrs. Elizabeth Bright Murdock hires Marlowe to find an old rare coin, the Brasher Doubloon, that belonged in her deceased husband's...
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