THE BRASHER DOUBLOON
(20th Century-Fox) —
(COMPARED with Lady in the Lake, this is a very orthodox thriller of the rough-and-tumble school. Philip Marlowe this time is played
by George Montgomery: so far as I know he is no relation to Robert, and he has little of his skill and polish. His present assignment is to trace a rare coin, called the Brasher Doubloon, which has disappeared from a collection owned by a. tyrannital dowager (Florence Bates). The old girl also possesses a large house, an unpleasant son (Conrad Janis), a terrified secretary (Nancy Guild), a biting tongue, and a sinister secret. In the course of his investigations, Marlowe runs into plenty of trouble at the hands of the police as well as the hands of the criminal element, but finds some compensation in teaching the pretty secretary to cure herself of a peculiar nervous complaint-she dislikes being touched by men. However, she is a willing enough patient, and by the end of the picture her cure is complete. This is a comparatively new approay. to screen love-making, especially for, Philip Marlowe, an amorous type as well as a hard-boiled one, who usually collects a girl or two without any such difficulty in every screen play in which he figures. But the real interest of this (continued on next page)
(continued from previous page) film lies not in the untouchability of its heroine, but in the array of minor characters, exotic fungi of the criminal undergrowth who flourish even more luxuriantly than one expects in a Raymond Chandler story.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 17, Issue 421, 18 July 1947, Page 32
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258THE BRASHER DOUBLOON New Zealand Listener, Volume 17, Issue 421, 18 July 1947, Page 32
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