Lady in the Lake (1947)

We’re into the last stretch of THE LEFT HAND ENDEAVOR and we have five more classic noir to go and today we bid farewell to Chandler’s iconic detective in our last MARLOWE MONDAY feature. Robert Montgomery definitely isn’t our favorite Marlowe this month. Probably the worst one, actually, but this 1947 adaptation of “The Lady in the Lake” that he directed is pretty damn experimental. A first of its kind as far as we know. You see, Robert Montgomery is Philip Marlowe but also YOU are Philip Marlowe….kinda. This movie is shot from a first person perspective. Marlowe’s perspective to be exact. There’s no cutting within scenes. Just characters looking right at the camera all throughout the movie. Some parts look cool but the concept pigeonholes the execution. That said, Audrey Totter deserves credit for all the heavy lifting. It’s probably more her movie than anybody else’s, truly. It’s the gimmicky “LADY IN THE LAKE” and we will leave you a link right here: https://archive.org/details/lady-in-the-lake-robert-montgomery-audrey-totter-leon-ames-tom-tully-lloyd-nolan-1947 , So long Marlowe. See you soon.

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