Member Movie Night | Lady in the Lake

(Robert Montgomery, US 1947, 105 min., 16mm)

Robert Montgomery directs and stars in this Raymond Chandler adaptation. Montgomery uses first-person camera extensively to put the audience in the position of Philip Marlowe’s first-person narration of the novel. Marlowe(Montgomery), down on his luck, tries to sell a story to a pulp magazine. Lured to the magazine’s office under false pretenses, he is hired by magazine editor Adrienne Fromsett (Audrey Totter) to find the wife of her employer. As Marlowe tracks the wife down, he gets caught up in a web of infidelity, gold-digging, violence, police corruption, and murder. 

Post-film discussion with Curator of Film Exhibitions Jared Case.