The 1949 film "Mr. Soft Touch" is about a World War II veteran Joe Miracle (Glenn Ford) who steals a large sum of money from gangsters who took over the casino he owned when he went into the army. The film is set in San Francisco around Christmas. Joe hides out in a refuge house run by social worker Jenny Jones (Evelyn Keyes) while waiting to catch a ship out of the country. Jenny manages to tame some of Joe's hard-boiled instincts. Early in the film Joe is in Jenny's office and sees a pile of silver dollars and smaller coins. His first instinct is to pocket them but decides not to. Some film prop coins appear as coins, including two stacks of large prop coins. The large prop coins are Prosperity Lucky Coins (good luck coins).

Joe is driving a "1947 Lincoln" and is fleeing someone or something. He has to stop to pay the bridge toll, then 25 cents, exact change requested.

Joe has lots of cash including a fifty-dollar bill.

The bill is a standard Mexican Revolution motion picture stage or prop bill.
For more information on these bills please visit: Mexican Revolution Currency Notes

Joe then hides the car at a used car lot.

He visits a friend who has bought a ship ticket to Japan for him. He has to hide somewhere until the ship sails, and through circumstances, finds himself at Jenny's refuge or homeless shelter. A radio broadcast and a newspaper column indicate that Joe is carrying a lot of cash which he has stolen from a casino which he and partners owned before the war (World War II). Joe went into the army and upon his return found his partner murdered and the casino taken over by gangsters. He visited the casino and took a large sum of cash money with him, and is being followed by the gangsters who want the money back.

Joe is in Jenny's office and looks around.

The cup has writing indicating it was used for a charity fundraising drive. Posters for various charity groups, including the Red Cross, are on the walls. Joe then looks at the desk and sees something.

On the desk is a pile of money in silver dollars and smaller coins. A note with them indicates that they are for the "United Nations for Children."

The paper under the coins reads "UNITED NATIONS APPEAL FOR CHILDREN $21.32."

A closer look at the coins:

There are two types of prop coin stacks on the table. The larger coins are Prosperity Lucky Coins (good luck coins).
The smaller coins are Los Angeles Rubber Stamp Company Motion Picture 25 cent prop coins.

White metal, 30 mm, 10.38 gm

Obverse:
Woman standing holding cornucopia, rising sun to right
PROSPERITY / 1932 / LUCKY COIN
Reverse:
Sailing ship facing right
LUCKY SHIP / SUCCESS TO YOU

Aluminum, 25.0 mm, 1.5 gm, the same size as a US 25 cent coin

Obverse:
LOS ANGELES RUBBER STAMP CO.
MFR'S OF / TRADE CHECKS / BAGGAGE CHECKS / CELLULOID BUTTONS
BURNING BRANDS / RIBBON BADGES / THROPHIES (Mispelling)
SEALS / STENCILS
Reverse:
RETURNABLE / FOR CREDIT AT LB. RATE / 25¢

Jenny's place has a number of colorful characters hanging around, including a young boy.

The boy claims to have tips on winning horseraces from his brother, a jockey. Joe gives the boy some money, more Mexican stage money. Joe spots Jenny and gazes at her legs.

Jenny isn't impressed with Joe's line "I'd like to see you in red silk." The gangsters show up and set the place on fire.
Jenny and Joe fall in love but she wants to stay at her place and not flee with Joe.
A little girl leaves with a package.

It's Joe's money from the casino. He heads over to the casino, enters using a secret tunnel, and confronts the gangster chief.

Joe opens the safe (apparently the gangsters didn't change the combination) and takes more money. He heads back to Jenny's place dressed as Santa Claus and followed by gangsters. As Santa Claus he hands out the money, is spotted by the gangsters and is shot.

Joe and Jenny are together but whether he survives or not is ambiguous.

Glenn Ford as Joe Miracle
Evelyn Keyes as Jenny Jones
Directors: Gordon Douglas, Henry Levin
Writers: Milton Holmes, Orin Jannings