The Brasher Doubloon Theatrical Trailer 1947 – A Philip Marlowe Film Noir, Raymond Chandler Mystery

Описание: Enjoy this original theatrical trailer for The Brasher Dubloon, complete with subtitles, and the fine movie presentation    • The Brasher Doubloon 1947 – Philip Marlowe...  

I was sore at myself for coming all the way out to Pasadena on a day like that, just to see about a case... And how I hate summer winds – they come in suddenly off the Mojave Desert, and you can taste sand for a week... I knew it was the voice of the girl on the phone that had got me, and I was reminding myself how often your ears play a dirty trick on your eyes – but this time there was no let down... Mr. Marlowe? » Yes...

Based on Raymond Chandler's 1942 novel, The High Window, this Philip Marlowe mystery takes us from an eerie Pasadena mansion with huge palm trees blowing in the wind, to the downtown dives of Bunker Hill, in search of the incredibly valuable Brasher Doubloon - enjoy the drive...

⭐You know somethin'', Marlowe? You're smart, but don't try to be too smart. – All right, I'll try to be just smart enough.⭐

The Brasher Doubloon aka The High Window (working title), is a 1947 American film noir mystery drama directed by John Brahm, starring George Montgomery and Nancy Guild.

The coin dealer, Elisha Morningstar, is played by Houseley Stevenson, a familiar character actor from many pictures, notably another Marlowe feature, Dark Passage 1947, where he plays the memorable plastic surgeon, Dr. Walter Coley, and Colonel Beebe in The Man Who Returned to Life 1942:    • The Man Who Returned to Life 1942 Crime Dr...  

⭐The Florence Apartments was a rooming house on Bunker Hill, which used to be the choice place to live in Los Angeles. – Nowadays, people live there because they haven't got any choice.⭐

The film's atmosphere benefits from its marvellous location settings:
'The Murdock Mansion' still stands today. It's the Frederick Hastings Rindge House, a historic house built in 1904 and located at 2263 South Harvard Boulevard in the West Adams neighbourhood of Los Angeles, California. In 1986, it was listed on the National Register of Historic Places: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederi...

The Florence Apartments, where Marlowe discovers George Anson's body, are The Gladden Apartments at 100 S. Olive Street, on the southeast corner of First Street in the Bunker Hill section of Downtown Los Angeles. It played a disreputable flophouse in at least one other film noir, The Turning Point 1952. According to Raymond Chandler expert Loren Latker (shamustown.com), the hard-boiled writer lived there in 1917, thirty years before his fictional detective visited.

⭐To tell you the truth, I was expecting an older man, more intelligent-looking. – I'm wearing a disguise.⭐

Stars: George Montgomery, Nancy Guild, Conrad Janis, Roy Roberts, Fritz Kortner, Florence Bates, Marvin Miller
Director: John Brahm
Screenplay by Dorothy Bennett - Adaptation by Leonard Praskins - Based on the novel The High Window by Raymond Chandler.

Contemporary Reception
When the film was released, the film critic for The New York Times panned the film, writing, "... Chandler's popular 'shamus' and, we might add, his efforts to recover the stolen brasher doubloon, a rare coin with a violent history, is the least of his exploits to date. Perhaps this is due equally to a pedestrian adaptation of Mr. Chandler's novel, The High Window, to the plodding and conventional direction accorded the film by John Brahm, and to the lack of conviction in George Montgomery's interpretation of Marlowe."

Film critic Dennis Schwartz, on the other hand, liked the film and wrote, "A film noir similar in theme and almost as enjoyable as The Big Sleep, as private investigator Philip Marlowe (George Montgomery) leaves his Hollywood office for a case in Pasadena from a rich old widow who lives in a dark old house. It's just smart enough of a film noir to be considered a classic... This brooding Gothic melodrama is brought to life by John Brahm's expressionistic ambiance, ably photographed by cinematographer Lloyd Ahern, and by the sharp, hard-boiled Raymond Chandler story the film is adapted from, The High Window. The film is not as complex as the novel, but it makes good use of its snappy dialogue and has vividly grotesque characterizations to go along with the dark mood it sets. Fritz Kortner stands out in his villainous role, which he plays like Peter Lorre would; while Florence Bates is charmingly acerbic in her creepy role as a bitter old hag."

Taglines
THEY GAMBLED THEIR LIVES...TO POSSESS THE MOST DANGEROUS SECRET OF ALL! (original print media ad - all caps)
BEAUTIFUL...SMART...DEADLY! (print ad - Lubbock Evening Journal - Plaza Theatre - Lubbock, Texas - October 3, 1947 - all caps)
Some Women Can't Stand Cats... WITH ME IT'S MEN!
That Gal GUILD Will Drive Montgomery (And You) WILD!
RAREST -- and most dangerous of coins! ONE man murdered to keep it! ONE woman found love when she lost it! ONE man gambled his life to possess it!

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