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Marlowe (Montgomery) is hired by crime-fiction editor Adrienne Fromsett (Audrey Totter) to find Chrystal Kingsby, faithless wife of Adrienne's boss, Derace Kingsby (Leon Ames). Seems Chrystal sent Kingsby a telegram claiming that she was going to Mexico to get a quickie divorce so she could marry her gigolo boyfriend, Chris Lavery. However, Lavery is still in town and says he hasn't seen Chrystal in a month. Chrystal was last seen at Derace Kingsby's estate at Little Fawn Lake, where police have just recovered the dead body of a woman named Muriel Chess, wife of the caretaker. And Muriel knew Chris Lavery... More plot twists follow in classic Raymond Chandler fashion, including Marlowe tangling suspicious police captain Kane (Tom Tully) and his hostile lieutenant [=DeGarmot=] (Lloyd Nolan).
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Marlowe (Montgomery) is hired by crime-fiction editor Adrienne Fromsett (Audrey Totter) to find Chrystal Kingsby, faithless wife of Adrienne's boss, Derace Kingsby (Leon Ames). Seems Chrystal sent Kingsby a telegram claiming that she was going to Mexico to get a quickie divorce so she could marry her gigolo boyfriend, Chris Lavery. However, Lavery is still in town and says he hasn't seen Chrystal in a month. Chrystal was last seen at Derace Kingsby's estate at Little Fawn Lake, where police have just recovered the dead body of a woman named Muriel Chess, wife of the caretaker. And Muriel knew Chris Lavery... More plot twists follow in classic Raymond Chandler fashion, including Marlowe tangling suspicious police captain running afoul of local cops Capt. Kane (Tom Tully) and his hostile lieutenant Lt. [=DeGarmot=] (Lloyd Nolan).
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''Lady in the Lake'' is a 1947 FilmNoir mystery directed by, and starring, Creator/RobertMontgomery. It is an adaptation of Creator/RaymondChandler's Literature/PhilipMarlowe novel ''The Lady in the Lake''.
Marlowe (Montgomery) is hired by crime-fiction editor Adrienne Fromsett (Audrey Totter) to find Chrystal Kingsby, faithless wife of Adrienne's boss, Derace Kingsby. Chrystal sent Kingsby a telegram claiming that she was going to Mexico to get a quickie divorce so she could marry her gigolo boyfriend, Chris Lavery. However, Lavery is still in town and says he hasn't seen Chrystal in a month. Chrystal was last seen at Derace Kingsby's estate at Little Fawn Lake, where the police have just recovered the dead body of a woman named Muriel Chess, wife of the caretaker. And Muriel knew Chris Lavery...
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''Lady in the Lake'' is a 1947 FilmNoir mystery directed by, and starring, Creator/RobertMontgomery. It is an adaptation of Creator/RaymondChandler's Literature/PhilipMarlowe novel ''The Lady in the Lake''.
Marlowe (Montgomery) is hired by crime-fiction editor Adrienne Fromsett (Audrey Totter) to find Chrystal Kingsby, faithless wife of Adrienne's boss, Derace Kingsby. Chrystal sent Kingsby a telegram claiming that she was going to Mexico to get a quickie divorce so she could marry her gigolo boyfriend, Chris Lavery. However, Lavery is still in town and says he hasn't seen Chrystal in a month. Chrystal was last seen at Derace Kingsby's estate at Little Fawn Lake, where the police have just recovered the dead body of a woman named Muriel Chess, wife of the caretaker. And Muriel knew Chris Lavery...
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* FakingTheDead: [[spoiler: It turns out that Muriel Chess/Mildred Havelend isn't dead after all. She murdered Chrystal Kingsby, put her clothes on Chrystal, and chucked the body in the lake]].
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* FakingTheDead: It turns out that Muriel Chess/Mildred Havelend isn't dead after all. She murdered Chrystal Kingsby, put her clothes on Chrystal, and chucked the body in the lake.
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* [[TheNameIsBondJamesBond My name is Marlowe, Phillip Marlowe]]: At the beginning of the film, Marlowe introduces himself this way.
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* DistractedByTheSexy: Marlowe is chatting with Adrienne when he pivots all the way around in his chair to watch the voluptuous blonde receptionist leave the room.[[note]]Random trivia: that [[SexySecretary smoking hot receptionist]] was played by one Lila Leeds, remembered to history as the woman who was with Creator/RobertMitchum when Mitchum and Leeds were busted by cops for smoking marijuana, a SeriousBusiness scandal at the time.[[/note]]
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* DistractedByTheSexy: Marlowe is chatting with Adrienne when he pivots all the way around in his chair to watch the voluptuous blonde receptionist leave the room.[[note]]Random trivia: that [[SexySecretary smoking hot receptionist]] was played by one Lila Leeds, remembered to history as the woman who was with Creator/RobertMitchum when Mitchum and Leeds the pair were busted by cops for smoking marijuana, a SeriousBusiness scandal at the time.[[/note]]
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* DidIMentionItsChristmas: Set at Christmastime, seemingly for no other reason than to provide an ironic counterpoint to the story of betrayal and murder. The opening credits are presented as a stack of Christmas cards picked up one at a time, eventually revealing a gun at the bottom. Scene transitions are accompanied by a choir wordlessly singing carols in a minor key. A hardnosed cop gets distracted from his interrogation of Marlowe when the cop's daughter calls the office and starts reciting "Twas the Night Before Christmas" over the phone.
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* DidIMentionItsChristmas: Set The film is set at Christmastime, seemingly for no other reason than to provide an ironic counterpoint to the story of betrayal and murder. The opening credits are presented as a stack of Christmas cards picked up one at a time, eventually revealing a gun at the bottom. Scene transitions are accompanied by a choir wordlessly singing carols in a minor key. A hardnosed cop gets distracted from his interrogation of Marlowe when the cop's daughter calls the office and starts reciting "Twas the Night Before Christmas" over the phone.
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* DidIMentionItsChristmas: Set at Christmastime, seemingly for no other reason than to provide an ironic counterpoint to the story of betrayal and murder. The opening credits are presented as a stack of Christmas cards picked up one at a time, eventually revealing a gun at the bottom. Scene transitions are accompanied by a choir wordlessly singing carols in a minor key. A hardnosed cop gets distracted from his interrogation of Marlowe when the cop's daughter calls the office and starts reciting "Twas the Night Before Christmas" over the phone. phone.
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* DistractedByTheSexy: Marlowe is chatting with Adrienne when he pivots all the way around in his chair to watch the voluptuous receptionist leave the room.[[note]]Random trivia: that smoking hot receptionist was one Lila Leeds, remembered to history as the woman who was with Creator/RobertMitchum when Mitchum and Leeds were busted by cops for smoking marijuana, a SeriousBusiness scandal at the time.[[/note]]
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''Lady in the Lake'' is a 1947 film FilmNoir mystery directed by by, and also starring starring, Creator/RobertMontgomery. It is an adaptation of Creator/RaymondChandler's Literature/PhilipMarlowe novel ''The Lady in the Lake''.
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''Lady in the Lake'' is a 1947 film directed by and also starring Creator/RobertMontgomery.
It is an adaptation of Creator/RaymondChandler's Literature/PhilipMarlowe novel ''The Lady in the Lake''. Philip Marlowe (Montgomery) is hired by Adrienne Fromsett (Audrey Totter) to find Chrystal Kingsby, faithless wife of Adrienne's boss, Derace Kingsby. Chrystal sent Kingsby a telegram claiming that she was going to Mexico to get a quickie divorce so she could marry her gigolo boyfriend, Chris Lavery. However, Lavery is still in town and says he hasn't seen Chrystal in a month. Chrystal was last seen at Derace Kingsby's estate at Little Fawn Lake, where the police have just recovered the dead body of a woman named Muriel Chess, wife of the caretaker. And Muriel knew Chris Lavery...
It is an adaptation of Creator/RaymondChandler's Literature/PhilipMarlowe novel ''The Lady in the Lake''. Philip Marlowe (Montgomery) is hired by Adrienne Fromsett (Audrey Totter) to find Chrystal Kingsby, faithless wife of Adrienne's boss, Derace Kingsby. Chrystal sent Kingsby a telegram claiming that she was going to Mexico to get a quickie divorce so she could marry her gigolo boyfriend, Chris Lavery. However, Lavery is still in town and says he hasn't seen Chrystal in a month. Chrystal was last seen at Derace Kingsby's estate at Little Fawn Lake, where the police have just recovered the dead body of a woman named Muriel Chess, wife of the caretaker. And Muriel knew Chris Lavery...
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''Lady in the Lake'' is a 1947 film directed by and also starring Creator/RobertMontgomery.
Creator/RobertMontgomery. It is an adaptation of Creator/RaymondChandler's Literature/PhilipMarlowe novel ''The Lady in the Lake''. Philip Lake''.
Marlowe (Montgomery) is hired by crime-fiction editor Adrienne Fromsett (Audrey Totter) to find Chrystal Kingsby, faithless wife of Adrienne's boss, Derace Kingsby. Chrystal sent Kingsby a telegram claiming that she was going to Mexico to get a quickie divorce so she could marry her gigolo boyfriend, Chris Lavery. However, Lavery is still in town and says he hasn't seen Chrystal in a month. Chrystal was last seen at Derace Kingsby's estate at Little Fawn Lake, where the police have just recovered the dead body of a woman named Muriel Chess, wife of the caretaker. And Muriel knew Chris Lavery...
Marlowe (Montgomery) is hired by crime-fiction editor Adrienne Fromsett (Audrey Totter) to find Chrystal Kingsby, faithless wife of Adrienne's boss, Derace Kingsby. Chrystal sent Kingsby a telegram claiming that she was going to Mexico to get a quickie divorce so she could marry her gigolo boyfriend, Chris Lavery. However, Lavery is still in town and says he hasn't seen Chrystal in a month. Chrystal was last seen at Derace Kingsby's estate at Little Fawn Lake, where the police have just recovered the dead body of a woman named Muriel Chess, wife of the caretaker. And Muriel knew Chris Lavery...
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* ShoutOut: To one of Montgomery's previous films from the 1930s, ''Petticoat Fever'', while he's being confronted by [=DeGarmont=].
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It is an adaptation of Creator/RaymondChandler's Literature/PhilipMarlowe novel ''The Lady in the Lake''. Philip Marlowe (Montgomery) is hired by Adrienne Fromsett (Audrey Totter) to find Chrystal Kingsby, faithless wife of Adrienne's boss, Derace Kingsby. Chrystal sent Kingsby a telegram claiming that she was going to Mexico to get a quickie divorce so she could marry her gigolo boyfriend, Chris Lavery. However, Lavery is still in town and says he hasn't seen Chrystal in a month. Chrystal was last seen at Derace Kingsby's estate at Little Fawn Lake, where the police have just recovered the dead body of a woman named Muriel Chess, wife of the caretaker. And Muriel knew Chris Lavery...
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It is an adaptation of Creator/RaymondChandler's Literature/PhilipMarlowe novel ''The Lady in the Lake''. Philip Marlowe (Montgomery) is hired by Adrienne Fromsett (Audrey Totter) to find Chrystal Kingsby, faithless wife of Adrienne's boss, Derace Kingsby. Chrystal sent Kingsby a telegram claiming that she was going to Mexico to get a quickie divorce so she could marry her gigolo boyfriend, Chris Lavery. However, Lavery is still in town and says he hasn't seen Chrystal in a month. Chrystal was last seen Derace Kingsby's estate at Little Fawn Lake, where the police have just recovered the dead body of one Muriel Chess, wife of the caretaker. And Muriel knew Chris Lavery...
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It is an adaptation of Creator/RaymondChandler's Literature/PhilipMarlowe novel ''The Lady in the Lake''. Philip Marlowe (Montgomery) is hired by Adrienne Fromsett (Audrey Totter) to find Chrystal Kingsby, faithless wife of Adrienne's boss, Derace Kingsby. Chrystal sent Kingsby a telegram claiming that she was going to Mexico to get a quickie divorce so she could marry her gigolo boyfriend, Chris Lavery. However, Lavery is still in town and says he hasn't seen Chrystal in a month. Chrystal was last seen Derace Kingsby's estate at Little Fawn Lake, where the police have just recovered the dead body of one a woman named Muriel Chess, wife of the caretaker. And Muriel knew Chris Lavery...
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* ChandlersLaw: Well it ''is'' a Raymond Chandler adaptation. Marlowe is unpleasantly surprised near the end when the door opens and it's not Capt. Kane the honest cop, but [=DeGarmot=] the very DirtyCop, pointing a gun. Marlowe's surprise allows [=DeGarmot=] to punch him in the face and get the gun.
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* ChandlersLaw: Well it ''is'' a Raymond Chandler adaptation. Marlowe is unpleasantly surprised near the end when the door opens and it's not Capt. Kane the honest cop, but [=DeGarmot=] the very DirtyCop, pointing a gun. Marlowe's surprise allows [=DeGarmot=] to punch him in the face and get the Marlowe's gun.
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''The Lady in the Lake'' is a 1947 film directed by and also starring Creator/RobertMontgomery.
It is an adaptation of Creator/RaymondChandler's Literature/PhilipMarlowe novel ''The Lady in the Lake''. Philip Marlowe (Montgomery) is hired by Adrienne Fromsett (Audrey Totter) to find Chrystal Kingsby, faithless wife of Adrienne's boss, Derace Kingsby. Chrystal sent Kingsby a telegram claiming that she was going to Mexico to get a quickie divorce so she could marry her gigolo boyfriend, Chris Lavery. However, Lavery is still in town and says he hasn't seen Chrystal in a month. Chrystal was last seen Derace Kingsby's estate at Little Fawn Lake, where the police have just recovered the dead body of one Muriel Chess, wife of the caretaker. And Muriel knew Chris Lavery...
More plot twists follow in classic Raymond Chandler fashion. This film is best remembered today for being shot almost entirely in POVCam from Philip Marlowe's perspective, with other characters addressing the camera directly and Robert Montgomery's face only being visible when Philip Marlowe looks in a mirror.
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* BelligerentSexualTension: Marlowe and Adrienne spend much of the movie angrily sniping at each other, even after she asks him to kiss her.
* ChandlersLaw: Well it ''is'' a Raymond Chandler adaptation. Marlowe is unpleasantly surprised near the end when the door opens and it's not Capt. Kane the honest cop, but [=DeGarmot=] the very DirtyCop, pointing a gun.
* ChekhovsGunman: Chris Lavery's landlady, Mrs. Falbrook, seen briefly by Marlowe at the Lavery murder scene. She's actually Mildred Havelend, aka Muriel Chess, and she's the murderer.
* CreditsGag: Chrystal is listed in the opening credits as being played by "Ellay Mort". It's a joke, a play on the French "''elle est morte''", "she is dead."
* DefrostingIceQueen: The formerly cold-as-ice Adrienne melts after falling in love with Marlowe. By the end she decides to quit her publishing job and become Marlowe's literary agent as well as wife.
* DidIMentionItsChristmas: Set at Christmastime, seemingly for no other reason than to provide an ironic counterpoint to the story of betrayal and murder. A hardnosed cop gets distracted from his interrogation of Marlowe when the cop's daughter calls the office and starts reciting "Twas the Night Before Christmas" over the phone. The opening credits are presented as a stack of Christmas cards picked up one at a time, eventually revealing a gun at the bottom.
* FakingTheDead: It turns out that Muriel Chess/Mildred Havelend isn't dead after all. She murdered Chrystal Kingsby, put her clothes on Chrystal, and chucked the body in the lake.
* GoldDigger: Eventually Adrienne admits that she is this. When Marlowe's brusqueness causes Derace to disavow any romantic interest in her, she gets mad at Marlowe, saying "Now you've lost me my million dollars."
* HaveAGayOldTime: "Me, I don't like certain kinds of private dicks."
* ImpairmentShot: The constant POVCam becomes this when a dazed Marlowe climbs out of his car, after [=DeGarmot=] ran him off the road and the car rolled over into a ditch.
* KnightInSourArmor: Marlowe, his usual cynical, world-weary self. After having sex with Adrienne he says he still has to figure out whether or not she's a murderer.
* MinorCrimeRevealsMajorPlot: Marlowe is hired to find a runaway wife, and winds up investigating three murders.
* {{Narrator}}: Aside from a couple of moments when Robert Montgomery looks into a mirror, we also see him in three brief shots (one in the beginning, one in the middle, and one at the end) where Marlowe, addressing the audience directly, narrates his story.
* POVCam: Shot almost entirely from Marlowe's point of view, with the camera going where Marlowe goes and seeing what Marlowe sees. The idea was to mimic Marlowe's first person narration visually on the screen. Apparently Raymond Chandler hated the idea and had his name removed from the credits.
* TitleDrop: More than once Marlowe refers to the corpse of Muriel Chess as "the lady in the lake."
* TrailOfBreadCrumbs: Marlowe, who thinks there's a pretty good chance that Chrystal Kingsby might try to kill him when they meet, leaves a trail of rice behind so that the cops can find him.
* UnbrokenFirstPersonPerspective: A very rare non-video game example of a story told almost entirely in unbroken first-person view; ''Film/RussianArk'' is another.
* YoureBeautifulWhenYoureAngry: Earlier Marlowe had told Adrienne not to act cute with him. When Marlowe starts snarking, Adrienne hisses "Who's being cute now?", only for Marlowe to shoot back "You are."
It is an adaptation of Creator/RaymondChandler's Literature/PhilipMarlowe novel ''The Lady in the Lake''. Philip Marlowe (Montgomery) is hired by Adrienne Fromsett (Audrey Totter) to find Chrystal Kingsby, faithless wife of Adrienne's boss, Derace Kingsby. Chrystal sent Kingsby a telegram claiming that she was going to Mexico to get a quickie divorce so she could marry her gigolo boyfriend, Chris Lavery. However, Lavery is still in town and says he hasn't seen Chrystal in a month. Chrystal was last seen Derace Kingsby's estate at Little Fawn Lake, where the police have just recovered the dead body of one Muriel Chess, wife of the caretaker. And Muriel knew Chris Lavery...
More plot twists follow in classic Raymond Chandler fashion. This film is best remembered today for being shot almost entirely in POVCam from Philip Marlowe's perspective, with other characters addressing the camera directly and Robert Montgomery's face only being visible when Philip Marlowe looks in a mirror.
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!!Tropes:
* BelligerentSexualTension: Marlowe and Adrienne spend much of the movie angrily sniping at each other, even after she asks him to kiss her.
* ChandlersLaw: Well it ''is'' a Raymond Chandler adaptation. Marlowe is unpleasantly surprised near the end when the door opens and it's not Capt. Kane the honest cop, but [=DeGarmot=] the very DirtyCop, pointing a gun.
* ChekhovsGunman: Chris Lavery's landlady, Mrs. Falbrook, seen briefly by Marlowe at the Lavery murder scene. She's actually Mildred Havelend, aka Muriel Chess, and she's the murderer.
* CreditsGag: Chrystal is listed in the opening credits as being played by "Ellay Mort". It's a joke, a play on the French "''elle est morte''", "she is dead."
* DefrostingIceQueen: The formerly cold-as-ice Adrienne melts after falling in love with Marlowe. By the end she decides to quit her publishing job and become Marlowe's literary agent as well as wife.
* DidIMentionItsChristmas: Set at Christmastime, seemingly for no other reason than to provide an ironic counterpoint to the story of betrayal and murder. A hardnosed cop gets distracted from his interrogation of Marlowe when the cop's daughter calls the office and starts reciting "Twas the Night Before Christmas" over the phone. The opening credits are presented as a stack of Christmas cards picked up one at a time, eventually revealing a gun at the bottom.
* FakingTheDead: It turns out that Muriel Chess/Mildred Havelend isn't dead after all. She murdered Chrystal Kingsby, put her clothes on Chrystal, and chucked the body in the lake.
* GoldDigger: Eventually Adrienne admits that she is this. When Marlowe's brusqueness causes Derace to disavow any romantic interest in her, she gets mad at Marlowe, saying "Now you've lost me my million dollars."
* HaveAGayOldTime: "Me, I don't like certain kinds of private dicks."
* ImpairmentShot: The constant POVCam becomes this when a dazed Marlowe climbs out of his car, after [=DeGarmot=] ran him off the road and the car rolled over into a ditch.
* KnightInSourArmor: Marlowe, his usual cynical, world-weary self. After having sex with Adrienne he says he still has to figure out whether or not she's a murderer.
* MinorCrimeRevealsMajorPlot: Marlowe is hired to find a runaway wife, and winds up investigating three murders.
* {{Narrator}}: Aside from a couple of moments when Robert Montgomery looks into a mirror, we also see him in three brief shots (one in the beginning, one in the middle, and one at the end) where Marlowe, addressing the audience directly, narrates his story.
* POVCam: Shot almost entirely from Marlowe's point of view, with the camera going where Marlowe goes and seeing what Marlowe sees. The idea was to mimic Marlowe's first person narration visually on the screen. Apparently Raymond Chandler hated the idea and had his name removed from the credits.
* TitleDrop: More than once Marlowe refers to the corpse of Muriel Chess as "the lady in the lake."
* TrailOfBreadCrumbs: Marlowe, who thinks there's a pretty good chance that Chrystal Kingsby might try to kill him when they meet, leaves a trail of rice behind so that the cops can find him.
* UnbrokenFirstPersonPerspective: A very rare non-video game example of a story told almost entirely in unbroken first-person view; ''Film/RussianArk'' is another.
* YoureBeautifulWhenYoureAngry: Earlier Marlowe had told Adrienne not to act cute with him. When Marlowe starts snarking, Adrienne hisses "Who's being cute now?", only for Marlowe to shoot back "You are."
