![]() ![]() Setting aside the gimmick which MGM optimistically hailed as the greatest cinematic innovation since synchronised sound 'Lady in the Lake' doesn't quite measure up to other popular Chandler adaptations of the time. Marlowe's face is seen only during several brief explanatory interludes, and whenever he happens to catch his reflection in the mirror. Montgomery, in his last film at MGM, was also given the opportunity to direct, and he doesn't flinch from his chosen gimmick. Hyde (1931).' In 1947, shortly after the release of Montgomery's film, Delmer Daves would take an enormous risk by filming the first hour of 'Dark Passage (1947)' without showing the face of Humphrey Bogart, though the star's status was such that he was eventually forced to emerge from the shadows (after which point, it must be said, the film becomes more conventional and marginally less interesting). ![]() The technique had been used before, albeit on a lesser scale, in the opening five minutes of Rouben Mamoulian's 'Dr. Robert Montgomery's 'Lady in the Lake (1947)' is most renowned for being one of the only mainstream films to unfold almost entirely from the first-person perspective of the main character, in this case Raymond Chandler's Philip Marlowe. I'll get the obvious out of the way first. ![]()
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