![]() Fromsett, who’s a gorgeous woman named Adrienne. The movie is told in flashback, and now the POV changes to that of Marlowe’s for the bulk of the story. He relates the tale of how he submitted a short story to a pulp magazine, and received a reply from an editor named “A. “My name is Marlowe”, the film begins, as we see him sitting at his office desk. ![]() Does it work? Well….I guess that all depends on YOUR point of view! The actors play straight to the camera, doubling for the private eye. ![]() Aside from a few brief narration scenes, we see everything through the eyes of Marlowe. Raymond Chandler’s Philip Marlowe stories are all done in first-person narrative, so it must have seemed logical to director/star Robert Montgomery to shoot THE LADY IN THE LAKE in the subjective point-of-view. ![]()
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