Chandler's Law: Well it is a Raymond Chandler adaptation.Belligerent Sexual Tension: Marlowe and Adrienne spend much of the movie angrily sniping at each other, even after she asks him to kiss her.Aren't You Going to Ravish Me?: After the Distracted by the Sexy moment where Marlowe gawks at the receptionist (see below), an irritated Adrienne says 'I must be losing my touch.'.Cam from Marlowe's perspective, with the other characters addressing the camera directly and Montgomery's face only being visible when Marlowe looks in a mirror.

Montgomery's official directorial debut, note he'd done some uncredited work behind the camera on They Were Expendable a couple years earlier, after John Ford broke his leg this film is best remembered today for being shot almost entirely in P.O.V. More plot twists follow in classic Raymond Chandler fashion, including Marlowe running afoul of local cops Capt. Chrystal was last seen at Derace Kingsby's estate at Little Fawn Lake, where police have just recovered the dead body of a woman named Muriel Chess, wife of the caretaker. However, Lavery is still in town and says he hasn't seen Chrystal in a month. Seems Chrystal sent Kingsby a telegram claiming that she was going to Mexico to get a quickie divorce so she could marry her gigolo boyfriend, Chris Lavery. Marlowe (Montgomery) is hired by crime-fiction editor Adrienne Fromsett (Audrey Totter) to find Chrystal Kingsby, faithless wife of Adrienne's boss, Derace Kingsby (Leon Ames). Lady in the Lake is a 1947 Film Noir mystery directed by and starring Robert Montgomery, adapted from Raymond Chandler's Philip Marlowe novel The Lady in the Lake.

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