Lady in the Lake

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Cast

Robert Montgomery
as Philip Marlowe

Audrey Totter
as Adrienne Fromsett

Lloyd Nolan
as Lt. DeGarmot

Tom Tully
as Capt. Kane

Leon Ames
as Derace Kingsby

Jayne Meadows
as Mildred Havelend

Morris Ankrum
as Eugene Grayson

Lila Leeds
as Receptionist

Richard Simmons
as Chris Lavery

Ellen Ross
as Elevator Girl

William Roberts
as Artist

Kathleen Lockhart
as Mrs. Grayson

Ellay Mort
as Chrystal Kingsby

Cy Kendall
as Jaibi

Ralph Dunn
as Sergeant

William McKeever Riley
as Bunny

Wheaton Chambers
as Property Clerk

Frank Orth
as Greer

Robert B. Williams
as Detective

Dick Simmons
as Chris Lavery

Jack Davis
as Policeman

John Gallaudet
as Policeman

Thomas Murray
as Policeman

George Magrill
as Policeman

Budd Fine
as Policeman

John Webb Dillon
as Policeman

Robert Spencer
as Marlowe's Double

William Newell
as Drunk

Eddie Acuff
as Coroner

Nina Ross
as Christmas Party Guest

Charles Bradstreet
as Christmas Party Guest

George Travell
as Christmas Party Guest

William O'Leary
as Christmas Party Guest

Bert Moorhouse
as Christmas Party Guest

Florence Stephens
as Christmas Party Guest

Sandra Morgan
as Christmas Party Guest

Fred Santley
as Christmas Party Guest

Laura Treadwell
as Christmas Party Guest

Kay Wiley
as Christmas Party Guest

Frank Dae
as Christmas Party Guest

David Cavendish
as Christmas Party Guest

Jim Nolan
as Christmas Party Guest

Fred E. Sherman
as Reporter

Sherry Hall
as Christmas Party Guest

Ann Lawrence
as Christmas Party Guest

Billy Newell
as Drunk

James Nolan
as Party Guest

Roger Cole
as Christmas Party Guest

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• Apr 02, 2010

  This has some great stuff in it, but it's too mediocre to give it really high marks. The POV stuff can be a bit on the boring and uninteresting side, which is why I think it failed a bit for me.
  Tim S Super Reviewer
• Dec 06, 2009

  Tough little noir. The audience POV is a gimmick but not one that ruins the enjoyment of the film, actually what could have been dispensed with was when Montgomery shows up sporadically to provide info for the viewer which would have been better as a voice over. Totter is a great noir heroine, pretty but with a hardness to her features and attitudes that make her perfect for the genre.
  jay n Super Reviewer
• Aug 18, 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 around the same time in 1947. but montgomery's trial is thorough becuz montgomery's philip marlowe is basically just a narrator, a void awaiting to be filled by the audience. first of all, it takes a great deal of imagination as well as some enduring composure as a constant reader to visualize oneself in the position of philip marlowe as you're reading chandler's detective novels with his die-hard ace marlowe. as an enthusiastic reader of chandler's novels, i've found montgomery's primitive direction borders on my perception of the plots as i leaf one page after another. obviously, i cannot help but wonder whether montgomery's choice of such kind of directing is due to his limited craftmanship as a director since he cannot think any other way to present a movie? second of all, the process of film-viewing is a highly passive involvement with the original texts since the filmakers have filled in the pages with their own envisioning of the story. as a viewer, you're detached in a position to judge whether the fimmaker's presentation is marvellously creative or not with a smugly ignorant condescendence even you've not got in touch with the texts beforehand. but on the contrary, reading is an active experience or commitment to devote your absolute attention into the story, and you're more left alone with your own imaginations on the characters, backset and the stream of consciousness kind of soliloquy as the character's self-revelation...you concede into the author's viewpoint at the moment you open the book or you wouldn't dedicate your time and efforts on consuming all the materials..when you're reading, you're fabricating a movie made on your own with your mind in absolute privacy.... so "lady in the lake" is merely a passable movie-piece since the director cannot offer you anything more than a whirling camera with some bizarre hand gestures. but somehow it simulates your inward state as you read the original books while imagining yourself as marlowe and see things in his angle...meanwhile it also lacks a sort of deepening refinement of characters' dimensions which the book usually renders by monologues..in the case, it proves that audrey totter is indeed a good actress who could pull off an acting job by playing opposite to an abscent leading man, shedding tears to a lifeless machine without the helpful eye-contact in the love scenes.
  Veronique K Super Reviewer
• Jan 17, 2009

  A 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.
  Patrick D Super Reviewer

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