Watch Lady In The Lake (1947) Free Online

Release Date: 1947

Cast: Lloyd Nolan, Robert Montgomery, Morris Ankrum, Audrey Totter, Tom Tully, Kathleen Lockhart, Jayne Meadows, Leon Ames

Categories: Movies, Crime Fiction, Thriller, Black-and-white, Mystery, Point of view shot, Crime Thriller, Film noir

Lady in the Lake is a 1947 American film noir that marked the directorial debut of Robert Montgomery, who also stars in the film. The picture also features Audrey Totter, Lloyd Nolan, Tom Tully, Leon Ames and Jayne Meadows. The murder mystery was an adaptation of the 1944 Raymond Chandler novel The Lady in the Lake. Chandler, a twice Oscar nominated screenwriter who did not author the screenplay for this or any other screen adaptations of his own novels, disdained Montgomery's ambition to create a cinematic version of the first-person narrative style of his Philip Marlowe novels. With the... MORE

Lady in the Lake is a 1947 American film noir that marked the directorial debut of Robert Montgomery, who also stars in the film. The picture also features Audrey Totter, Lloyd Nolan, Tom Tully, Leon Ames and Jayne Meadows. The murder mystery was an adaptation of the 1944 Raymond Chandler novel The Lady in the Lake. Chandler, a twice Oscar nominated screenwriter who did not author the screenplay for this or any other screen adaptations of his own novels, disdained Montgomery's ambition to create a cinematic version of the first-person narrative style of his Philip Marlowe novels. With the exception of a couple of times when Montgomery (in character) addresses the audience directly, the entire film is shot from the viewpoint of the central character, Marlowe. The audience sees only what he does. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer promoted the film with the claim that it was the first of its kind and the most revolutionary style of film since the introduction of the talkies. The movie was also unusual for having virtually no musical soundtrack. Tired of the low pay of his profession, hard-boiled private detective Phillip Marlowe (Montgomery) submits a murder story to Kingsby Publications. He is LESS