Robert Montgomery is the director and star of the film noir mystery Lady in the Lake, adapted for the screen by source novelist Raymond Chandler. Montgomery plays detective Philip Marlowe, a private eye who just wants to publish his own crime stories. Kingsby Publications editor Adrienne Fromsett (Audrey Totter) meets with Marlowe, but offers him a job as a detective instead of a writer. She wants him to find the missing wife of her boss, Mr. Kingsby (Leon Ames). (Adrienne wants them to proceed with their divorce so she can ...
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Robert Montgomery is the director and star of the film noir mystery Lady in the Lake, adapted for the screen by source novelist Raymond Chandler. Montgomery plays detective Philip Marlowe, a private eye who just wants to publish his own crime stories. Kingsby Publications editor Adrienne Fromsett (Audrey Totter) meets with Marlowe, but offers him a job as a detective instead of a writer. She wants him to find the missing wife of her boss, Mr. Kingsby (Leon Ames). (Adrienne wants them to proceed with their divorce so she can marry Kingsby herself.) Marlowe accepts the job and goes looking for clues at the home of the wife's sometime lover, Chris Lavery (Dick Simmons). When Marlowe gets knocked out and picked up for drunk driving, he decides to drop the case. He is drawn back in, however, when Adrienne suggests that Kingsby's wife is responsible for the murder of a mysterious lady in the lake. Lloyd Nolan and Tom Tully play two police detectives also on the case. Lady in the Lake is remembered as being filmed with a subjective camera -- almost entirely from Marlowe's point of view -- and subsequently hyped by an MGM ad campaign. Andrea LeVasseur, Rovi
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Kathleen Lockhart, Lila Leeds, Morris Ankrum, Jayne Meadows, Leon Ames, Tom Tully, Lloyd Nolan, Audrey Totter, Robert Montgomery. New. 2019 Buy with confidence-Satisfaction Guaranteed! Delivery Confirmation included for all orders in the US.
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Kathleen Lockhart, Lila Leeds, Morris Ankrum, Jayne Meadows, Leon Ames, Tom Tully, Lloyd Nolan, Audrey Totter, Robert Montgomery. New. 2019 Buy with confidence-Satisfaction Guaranteed! Delivery Confirmation included for all orders in the US.
Very convoluted film noir, starring Robert Montgomery (who also directed) and Audrey Totter, beautiful and mysterious. Based on a Raymond Chandler book, it's a Phillip Marlowe mystery. Filmed from a "subjective" viewpoint, which means that it's all through the eyes of Marlowe, and you rarely see Marlowe himself, unless he's looking into a mirror. Seems to be a fairly long movie, but completely worth it. Surprisingly (to me, at least), Jayne Meadowes has a relatively small but important part. Excellent acting, and the story is riveting.
