You and Robert Montgomery Solve a Murder Mystery Together!
Private eye Phillip Marlowe wants to get out of the detective racket and into crime writing. But when he's called to the office of editor Adrienne Fromsett, it's not to talk about his story ideas — she wants him to locate the missing wife of her boss, Mr. Kingsby. The assignment quickly becomes complicated when bodies start turning up.
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Cool, grave, plot-driven and formally daring.
- cooloverwhelming
- gravecomic
- character-ledplot-driven
- classical in formformally daring
- sparerichly built
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- John Chardon TMDB · Dec 20187/10
If I should die before I live! Lady in the Lake is directed by Robert Montgomery and adapted to the screen by Steve Fisher from the novel The Lady in the Lake written by Raymond Chandler. It stars Montgomery, Audrey Totter, Lloyd Nolan, Tom Tully, Leon Ames and Jayne Meadows. Music is by David Snell and cinematography by Paul Vogel. It's the Christmas Holidays and private detective and part time writer Phillip Marlowe (Montgomery) strolls into Kingsby Publications to submit his latest novel. Although he didn't know it at the time, his reason for being there is for different matters, and soon he is involved in missing persons and dead bodies... Famous for being the film that used a first person gimmick (the camera is Marlowe for most of the picture), Lady in the Lake has a very divisive reputation for a number of reasons. Be it the gimmick or the portrayal of Marlowe (a much loved character to Chandler and film noir fans) by Montgomery, you will find for every person who likes the film greatly, the next person hates it. So with that you have to roll the dice and take your chance. I have an allergy against getting mixed up with tricky females who want to knock off the boss' wife and
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Cast
- Robert MontgomeryPhillip Marlowe
- Audrey TotterAdrienne Fromsett
- Lloyd NolanLieutenant DeGarmot
- Tom TullyCaptain Kane
- Leon AmesDerace Kingsby
- Jayne MeadowsMildred Haveland
- Dick SimmonsChris Lavery
- Morris AnkrumEugene Grayson
- Lila LeedsReceptionist
- William RobertsArtist
Crew
- Robert MontgomeryDirector
- Steve FisherScreenplay
- Raymond ChandlerScreenplay
- Raymond ChandlerNovel
- Paul VogelDirector of Photography
- David SnellOriginal Music Composer
- Rudolph G. KoppOriginal Music Composer
- Maurice GoldmanOriginal Music Composer
- Gene RuggieroEditor
- George HaightProducer
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