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Lady in the Lake
Robert Montgomery's 1946 adaptation of Raymond Chandler's finest novel is a notoriously misguided experiment in subjective camera, with the camera standing in, literally, for detective Philip Marlowe, smoking cigarettes and punching hoods with mechanical insouciance. A complete failure, but an educational one. Orson Welles planned to make his first film this way--thank God he didn't, or we'd never have had Citizen Kane. 103 min. |
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