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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.
Philip Marlowe, a private detective, is summoned to the office of Gordon H. Bronsen, a publisher. Bronsen assigns Marlowe to find his missing wife, Adrienne. Marlowe's investigation takes him through a labyrinth of deception, involving Bronsen's publisher, a mysterious woman named Crystal Allen, and the murder of Adrienne's former lover.
Robert Montgomery's directorial debut, and his innovative use of subjective camerawork, was a bold experiment. While critically divisive at the time, it is now recognized as a significant noir film for its unique visual style, though some critics found the perspective disorienting.
Praised for its innovative first-person point-of-view camera technique.
Acknowledged as a daring and unusual film noir experiment.
Criticized by some for making the viewer feel too passive or detached from the narrative.
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The film is famous for its experimental 'subjective camera' technique, where the audience sees everything through the eyes of the protagonist, Philip Marlowe, with Robert Montgomery (who also directed and starred) only appearing on screen when looking in a mirror.
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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, ...