Lady in the Lake

1946
PG
1h 45m

ÉVALUATION IMDb

6,5/10

6,6 k

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Jayne Meadows, Robert Montgomery, and Audrey Totter in Lady in the Lake (1946)

Liretrailer3 min 29 s

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28 photos

Film Noir Hard-boiled Detective Crime Mystery Thriller

La rédactrice en chef d'un magazine policier engage Phillip Marlowe pour trouver la femme de son patron. Le détective privé se retrouve bientôt impliqué dans un meurtre.La rédactrice en chef d'un magazine policier engage Phillip Marlowe pour trouver la femme de son patron. Le détective privé se retrouve bientôt impliqué dans un meurtre.La rédactrice en chef d'un magazine policier engage Phillip Marlowe pour trouver la femme de son patron. Le détective privé se retrouve bientôt impliqué dans un meurtre.

Director
- Robert Montgomery
Writers
- Steve Fisher
- Raymond Chandler
Stars

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ÉVALUATION IMDb

6,5/10

6,6 k

MA NOTE

Director
- Robert Montgomery
Writers
- Steve Fisher
- Raymond Chandler
Stars

Voir l’information sur la production à IMDbPro

Anecdotes
Lloyd Nolan was almost blinded when the glass splinters from a bullet that smashed a window hit him in the face. He was rushed to the hospital and a doctor carefully removed a shard of glass from the edge of his cornea.

Gaffes
When Adrienne is taking care of Marlowe after the car crash, she hands him a mirror so he can see his injuries. As he's putting the mirror down, the face of a stage hand is reflected in the mirror.

Citations
Adrienne Fromsett: [to Marlowe] Perhaps you'd better go home and play with your fingerprint collection.

Générique farfelu
SPOILER! In the opening credits Chrystal Kingsby is written as being played by Ellay Mort, the phonetic spelling for 'elle est morte', French for 'she is dead.'

Autres versions
There is an Italian edition of this film on DVD, distributed by DNA srl, "UNA DONNA NEL LAGO (1947) + L'UOMO NELL'OMBRA (1952)" (2 Films on a single DVD), re-edited with the contribution of film historian Riccardo Cusin. This version is also available for streaming on some platforms.

Connexions
Featured in The Best of Film Noir (1999)

Bandes originales
Jingle Bells
(uncredited)
Written by James Pierpont
Played during the opening credits
Also sung at the office Christmas party

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Commentaire en vedette

7/10

Hardly a classic, but great fun nonetheless.

If you want a great, serious Philip Marlowe mystery, go check out "The Big Sleep." If you're in a lighter mood, however, this one is well worth watching. The POV is cute and leads to some decent effects, but it's also tremendously goofy sometimes. The dialogue really sells it though. The lessons I learned from this movie were 1) Only men can handle guns. 2) Having four thumbs is bad. 3) Never, ever tell anyone the time. 4) If you try hard enough, you can drink whiskey through your eyes. I'm sure there are hundreds more gnomic sayings, easily applicable to daily life, scattered through it!

Seriously, though, it was a lot of fun to watch, mostly because of the problems with it, and I'd highly recommend it.