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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;willieboyd2, post: 1145899, member: 4910&quot;]I found this on YouTube, it is a &quot;trailer&quot; or &quot;coming attractions&quot;</p><p>advertisement for the 1947 film &quot;The Brasher Doubloon&quot;:</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pOE7-9y5KSk" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pOE7-9y5KSk" rel="nofollow">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pOE7-9y5KSk</a></p><p><br /></p><p>From the trailer:</p><p><br /></p><p>This is a Brasher Doubloon, an early American coin,</p><p>highly valued, not only because it&#039;s rare,</p><p>but also because of it&#039;s romantic and violent history.</p><p><br /></p><p>The man who coined it was robbed and killed through the</p><p>deceit of a woman.</p><p><br /></p><p>And seven succeeding owners have likewise come to abrupt</p><p>and unhappy ends.</p><p><br /></p><p>Now, for the eighth time, the Brasher Doubloon has been</p><p>involved with love, treachery, avarice, and murder.</p><p><br /></p><p>An <b>Exciting Drama</b> of a <b>Love</b> that has no price...</p><p>.and of a coin that brings <b>Ruin</b> to all who possess it!</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://www.brianrxm.com/posts/post_movie_brasher_doubloon_end.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>I was given a videotape of the film by a coin club friend</p><p>several years ago.</p><p>He had recorded it off of an old movie cable channel.</p><p>The film is not that good, and is mostly about</p><p>gangsters and blackmailers, not the coin.</p><p>It was based on the novel &quot;The High Window&quot; by Raymond Chandler,</p><p>one of the best-known crime writers of the 1940&#039;s.</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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