Review of Lady in the Lake (1946) by Ian P — 17 Aug 2011

Unique film! Phillip Marlowe (Montgomery) is hired by a company employee (Totter) to find her bosss missing wife. This movie is really cool! Robert Montgomery did one of the most stylish ways of filming-- the first person point of view.

When he gets punched, you get punched, when he faints you faint, and that is a neat feeling, because I havent ever had this experience with any other movie. People felt the same way when it first came out, making it a commercial success.

Audrey Totter is seriously talented, and she played her role really well, and probably outshone everyone else in the cast. Montgomery did a really good job of taking advantage of his cheap B-style sets, and made them look not as bad, so pretty smart.

This is a movie you can really appreciate: it was considered really risky to have such a tricky camera setup, but it is really pulled off nicely. Yes, there are certain times that it might get a little bit annoying, but would it be the same if in the middle of the movie they put it in a regular style? No, and thats a big enough reason to see this.

The Lady in the Lake might not be exactly something that everyone will like, but I did, and I think there will be a few that feel the same way.