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Hey all, has anyone seen the movie Dear John? Just saw it with the wife.............has lots of references to coins! In fact they show a mule, a morgan, etc. Pretty neat as a good majority of the movie has some talk about coins. Good movie too :)
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Have not seen it. Sounds interesting, will have to check it out.
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There's a movie with a bank robbery scene... I want to say it's Public Enemies with Johnny Depp, but I could be wrong. A bank patron offers his money and we see some Walker half dollars. The robber says, "put that away -- we're here for the bank's money, not yours." There's an episode of Mad Men with a flashback of Don Draper's childhood. His mom (adopted) offers a drifter a quarter for working around the farm, and we see a nice Standing Liberty quarter. (And Don's dad swipes the quarter.) |
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There is an old Phillip Marlowe movie called "The Brasher Doubloon" based on the novel "The High Window" by Raymond Chandler. Excellent book, grade B movie, but it does involve coins.
I just checked and it is available on youtube but a terrible quality print. However in the first segment there is a scene with a great coin cabinet built into a walk-in safe.
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03/25/2011 12:43 am
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I think the movie 'Dear John' paints coin collecting in a somewhat negative light, since it implies that the fathers' obsessive compulsive disorder got worse as he tried to search for rare coins....
It was a pretty good movie though.
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michael douglas is a crazy old man that thinks gold coins are buried under the costco..
he read some book and thinks he knows where a treasure is hidden, he uses a metal detector and finds a gold coin in a field, then he thinks the location to the treasure is under costco ( yes the food store wharehouse chain )
Douglas ask his duaghter to get a job their.
Douglas stays in costco untill it closes on him ... he then uses the stuff inside costco to dig a hole in the floor and go scuba diving in a underground river looking for the treasure..
HE DIVES AND FINDS SOME GOLD ! Shows him holding some gold coins in his hands...he makes a few dives then shows him walking around the costco moving gold ... The police show up becuase a silent alarm was tripped... He goes down into the hole agian...
I dont want to ruin the end .....
Its a neat/decent movie... does have gold coins in it
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03/25/2011 04:21 am
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I think the movie 'Dear John' paints coin collecting in a somewhat negative light, since it implies that the fathers' obsessive compulsive disorder got worse as he tried to search for rare coins....
It was a pretty good movie though. I completely disagree. The father was obsessive compulsive do to his actual disorder of being autistic. It just carried into his coin colleting. I also think the movie does a good job of showing how a common interest can bring a father and son together. Of cours in the movie it didn;t work out after the father pushed collecting to the extreme, but in the end the son ended up with the 1 coin that started it all. |
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This old thread mentions a few.
Don't know how anyone could find posts from farther back than a few days ago. Of coures that's just me, old age I guess. Nice refresher on that Sap. That post did cover a lot of coin movies. To bad this wasn't about currency. I think there is some of that in millions of movies, TV programs, etc. On our olddies but goodies type of movies they just ran that old Black and White movie about an old guy that counterfeited ond dollar bills for over 20 years. |
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I just now signed up here hoping to find out about a TV show or movie I saw once about the rich guy getting bumped off for his millions and after unsuccessfully searching the mansion for the entire show the culprits finally realized that his fortune had been hidden in plain sight all along in the game room in the form of rare coins prominently displayed behind glass in a slot machine or maybe it was a pin ball machine? Was it a Columbo episode maybe? Anyone remember seeing a story like that?
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And not just in movies. By me there are a lot of really old type stations that play many of those old black and white programs. Yesterday Dennis the Mennis was bothering that old guy next door who said don't bother me now I'm busy with my ocin collection. On one today that guy made a treasure map and had Dennis the Mennis and friends dig for that so called treasure. At night Dennis's Father spiked the hole with costome jewlery coins. Next day the kids had a ball finding them.
In bars some guy is always slamming down a coin to pay for his booze. If you can get those old black and white programs, you would see lots of old coins being used. Of course they weren't so old then.
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I always liked the bit in Titanic where Rose gives Jack a dime to do his drawing of her, and the camera zooms in on it and it's a Barber dime. Nothing major, but it's a nice touch. (I liked the next part of the scene quite a bit more but that's another thread). |
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a hawaii five o episode titled the $100,000 dollar nickel. in it a 1913 v-nickel gets stolen and you see what happens to it,like getting put in to a vending machine. this is from the original series.
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Not really about coins but my oldest daughter wanted me to see if I could find the movie 8 mile for her and I already had it here. Anyway, I watched it to make sure it would play alright and noticed when eminem is doing the rap battle the guy that's hosting the battles flips a Morgan each time to see who goes first
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Now this post has me starting to think I'll really watch more carefully on programs to see if they make coin mistakes. Like a horror movie not long ago on TV where it was supposed to be a few hundred years ago and there was this TV antenna on a roof.
Wonder how many TV programs use modern coins in a program that was supposed to be a long time ago. Mat Dillin is always in a bar so might be some there.
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