The 1967 film "Torture Garden" is a British supernatural horror film. Dr. Diabolo runs a carnival attraction and four stories show four people their possible futures. Only the introduction and first story feature coins. A customer hands a carnival clerk a British half crown coin to view an attraction. A man believes that his dying uncle has a fortune in gold coins hidden in his house. He causes his uncle to die of a heart attack and then finds the coins. The coins shown are imitation or prop coins.

A sign reads "Adults Only 2'6"
The United Kingdom was still on the pounds-shillings-pence monetary system in 1967. "2'6" was two shillings and sixpence or a half crown.

The coin on the table.

Copper-nickel, 32 mm, 14.14 gm
These coins were minted from 1953 to 1970.
A half crown was two and one half shillings or one eighth of a pound.
At the time of the film (1967) a pound was worth US $2.80 making a half crown worth US 35 cents. In 1971 Britain changed it's monetary system from the pound-shilling-pence system to a decimal system with a pound being equal to 100 new pence. The half crown then became obsolete.

Dr. Diabolo appears:

He gives a short talk and demonstrates the use of an electric chair. He then pitches a "special attraction" for five pounds.

Four people pay the money, a young man Colin Williams, two pretty girls Carla Hayes and Dorothy Endicott, and a sophisticated older man, Roland Wyatt.

The story of Colin Williams begins:
Colin is a playboy who owes money to gamblers. He goes to see his uncle Roger, a recluse who has a serious heart condition and, according to neighbors, a hoard of gold coins in his house.

Colin asks Uncle Roger and for some money and receives advice to get a job. The two men argue and Uncle Roger suffers a heart attack and dies. Dr. Silversmith, a local doctor, certifies the death as natural.

Colin searches the house for the gold and then climbs down to the basement.
The basement floor is dirt and Colin finds a shovel and starts digging. He discovers a coffin.

The coffin contains some bones and a very live cat which jumps out.

Colin guesses that Balthazar was his uncle's "familiar" or demonic assistant. Balthazar communicates with Colin and offers him the gold if he "feeds" the cat.

The coins are imitation or "prop" coins. Colin holds some of them.

Balthazar complains that he is hungry and that he wants human flesh. Colin murders a tramp and then a visiting woman. A policeman spots him loading a bloody bag into his car and arrests him. At the local jail Dr. Silversmith visits Colin who tells his story to him and a policeman.

Both the doctor and the policeman are skeptical and leave. Later the police sergeant checks on Colin and finds him dead.

A furry visitor interrupts his work.

Three more stories are shown and then at the conclusion all four people and a fifth, Gordon Roberts, appear.

Gordon works for Dr. Diabolo and they stage a fight. Three of the customers leave, but Roland Wyatt stays. Dr. Diabolo reveals himself as the Devil and asks Roland if he wants to make a deal.

Burgess Meredith as Dr. Diabolo (Introduction)
Jack Palance as Ronald Wyatt (Conclusion)
Michael Ripper as Gordon Roberts (Conclusion)
Michael Bryant as Colin Williams
Maurice Denham as Uncle Roger
Niall MacGinnis as Dr. Silversmith
Norman Claridge as Police Sergeant
Director: Freddie Francis
Writers: Robert Bloch