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Answer: Humphrey Bogart (The Big Sleep); Dick Powell (Murder My Sweet); Robert Montgomery (The Lady in the Lake); George Montgomery (The Brasher Doubloon...
...Among really valuable items are the 1804 silver dollar, which brought $36,000 at its last sale, and the Brasher Doubloon, which the coin department of Gimbels in Manhattan has insured...
...collection. On a chart drawn by a Boston cartographer rests this conclusion: ". . . I came through with a whale boat being ordered bye Government to look after Pirate Ship Whido Bellame Commandr. . . cast away 26 of April 1717 where I buried One Hundred and Two Men Drowned." An occasional doubloon from Bellame's hoard is still washed up on the sands...
...After a lobster fisherman found a 1748 Portuguese doubloon in the sand flats of New Jersey's Shrewsbury River, gold-hungry citizens swarmed over the spot by the hundreds, set to work with pails, rakes and shovels, found about 15 more coins before angry cottage-owners called the cops...
...fast running to formula, but the chances are that in at least two respects they will continue to be better than most movies: 1) in their portrayal of the shabby, menacing beauty of U.S. cities (there is a breath-taking street view of a Los Angeles rooming house in Doubloon) and 2) in the minor players who, with only a minute or so to make their points, impersonate, with passionate proficiency, the deep-sea fish of the underworld...