I found this on YouTube, it is a "trailer" or "coming attractions" advertisement for the 1947 film "The Brasher Doubloon": http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pOE7-9y5KSk From the trailer: This is a Brasher Doubloon, an early American coin, highly valued, not only because it's rare, but also because of it's romantic and violent history. The man who coined it was robbed and killed through the deceit of a woman. And seven succeeding owners have likewise come to abrupt and unhappy ends. Now, for the eighth time, the Brasher Doubloon has been involved with love, treachery, avarice, and murder. An Exciting Drama of a Love that has no price... .and of a coin that brings Ruin to all who possess it! I was given a videotape of the film by a coin club friend several years ago. He had recorded it off of an old movie cable channel. The film is not that good, and is mostly about gangsters and blackmailers, not the coin. It was based on the novel "The High Window" by Raymond Chandler, one of the best-known crime writers of the 1940's.
Interesting. This is the second million dollar coin that I've heard of in a film or tv show, with the second being the 1913 Liberty Nickel in a Hawaii Five O episode. All though at the time, the 1913 Lib was valued at around $100,000, and this was in the 70's.
I have seen that episode of Hawaii Five-O. (It was shown at ANA Summer Seminar a couple of years ago.) If I am not mistaken the title of that episode was 'The $100,000 Nickel'. Willie, recently I tried to find a DVD with the movie 'The Brasher Doubloon' but apparently it is not available on DVD. Licensing problems I assume.
You can get a DVD of it but it is probably just a copy of a cable broadcast. I did a google for "the Brasher Doubloon" video and found at least two places selling dvd's of it. One of them is obviously not a professionial copy, I couldn't tell for sure aout the other. I also found a copy of each on ebay.
