Robert Montgomery, Audrey Totter, Lloyd Nolan
Based on a novel by Raymond Chandler, the story focuses on private eye Philip Marlowe as he searches for a missing wife and discovers a different woman's corpse in a mountain lake.
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September 4, 2009"lady in the lake" is an amateurish noir by robert montgomery's gimmicky experiment of filmmaking with raymond chandler's novel by the same name. it utilizes the entire first-person perspective which is also applied in humprey bogart's "dark passage" which was also released aroun...( read more)
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October 28, 2007I spent the first 45 minutes annoyed by the crabbiness with which Robert Montgomery played Phillip Marlowe, but I eventually warmed up to Lady in the Lake. The whole 1st person POV was really gimmicky kind of annoying for a little while (especially with the crappy editing between...( read more)
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January 17, 2009A film that's one big gimmick, but fun to sit through once, even if it does take you out of the film.
Think Half-Life set in a Film-noir setting, yet it's mostly those parts where people talk to you and you have nothing to shoot. -
March 4, 2009Awkward and stiff in parts. First person camera work is bizarre and the fixation on Christmas is even more bizarre, But that's why I love it. Also 50% of the time the first person camera is focused on Audrey Totter, and while her eyes are downright crazy in this movie, I can w...( read more)
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February 8, 2009an average detective story, but is shot completely in the first person, keep eyes peeled and try snd solve the language of the fifties and who possibly did the dirty deed.
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September 6, 2007If ever there were a movie that cried out for a remake, this is it. Not because the film is bad, exactly--it's rather frustratingly average--but because the central concept is great but is failed by the available technology. Director and star Robert Montgomery tries to tell us th...( read more)
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June 29, 2007Extra props for filming it (almost entirely) in the first-person. This technique was well done for it's time, but the story didn't pull me in.
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