{"id":38986,"date":"2025-05-22T18:11:52","date_gmt":"2025-05-22T22:11:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=38986"},"modified":"2025-05-22T18:11:52","modified_gmt":"2025-05-22T22:11:52","slug":"lady-in-the-lake-1946-directed-and-starring-robert-montgomery-also-starring-audrey-totter-and-lloyd-nolan-z-view","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=38986","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Lady in the Lake&#8221; (1946) directed and starring Robert Montgomery, also starring Audrey Totter and Lloyd Nolan \/ Z-View"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2025\/z052225zview_ladyinthelake.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"735\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Lady in the Lake <\/strong><\/em>(1946)<\/p>\n<p>Director:\u00a0 <strong>Robert Montgomery<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Screenplay: <strong>Steve Fisher<\/strong>; based <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/45tL0CK\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">THE LADY IN THE LAKE<\/a> by <strong>Raymond Chandler<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Stars: <strong>Robert Montgomery, Audrey Totter<\/strong><strong>, Lloyd Nolan, Tom Tully, Leon Ames, Dick Simmons, Morris Ankrum, Lila Leeds, Charles Bradstreet <\/strong>and <strong>Jayne Meadows.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Tagline: <em>YOU AND ROBERT MONTGOMERY STAR IN AN EXCITING AND UNUSUAL MYSTERY-THRILLER -EVERYTHING THAT HAPPENS TO HIM HAPPENS TO YOU! <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>The Plot&#8230;<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Private Eye, Phillip Marlowe decides to take a shot at writing.\u00a0 When Marlowe is called into the publisher&#8217;s office, he thinks they want to buy his story.\u00a0 Adrienne Fromsett, is the publishing editor.\u00a0 She wants to buy Marlowe&#8217;s story.\u00a0 She also wants to hire Marlowe to find Chrystal Kingsby.\u00a0 Chrystal is her boss&#8217; wife.\u00a0 She hasn&#8217;t been seen for two months.<\/p>\n<p>After some back and forth, Marlowe accepts the job.\u00a0 What sounds like a missing person&#8217;s case turns out to be a multiple murder investigation.\u00a0 And Marlowe is the main suspect.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Thoughts (beware of spoilers)\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The film is shot from the viewpoint of Marlowe.\u00a0 The only time he is seen is by reflections in mirrors and windows or when he speaks directly to the audience.\u00a0 It&#8217;s odd seeing this decades before video games made it popular.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: inherit; color: initial;\"><em><strong>Lady in the Lake (1946) <\/strong><\/em>rates 3 of 5 stars<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/logo\/zview_c.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"100\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2025\/z052225zview_ladyinthelake2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"302\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lady in the Lake (1946) Director:\u00a0 Robert Montgomery Screenplay: Steve Fisher; based THE LADY IN THE LAKE by Raymond Chandler<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":912,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[52,17,51,54,65,74],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38986","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-celebs","category-crime","category-movies","category-trivia","category-z-view"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38986","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/912"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=38986"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38986\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38987,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38986\/revisions\/38987"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=38986"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=38986"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=38986"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}