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The camera shows Phillip Marlowes view from the first-person in this adaptation of Raymond Chandlers book. The detective is hired to find a publishers wife, who is supposed to have run off to Mexico. But the case soon becomes much more complicated as people are murdered.
Private investigator Phillip Marlowe recounts one of his recent cases, which he has named The Lady in the Lake. Just prior to Christmas, he is secretly hired by Adrienne Fromsett, the tough talking second in command at Kingsby Publishing, to find Chrystal Kingsby, the wife of her boss Derace Kingsby. Chrystal has been missing for two months, and Derace, who believes for her own reasons has run off, just wants her to be left alone. But Adrienne knows that Chrystal has a boyfriend named Chris Lavery, the supposed reason for her running off. Marlowe believes Adrienne has ulterior motives for wanting Chrystal found, beyond her want to get Chrystal out of the way so that she can become Mrs. Derace Kingsby herself. Those ulterior motives may have something to do with the fact that everywhere Adrienne points him, people are either unhappy to see him, or he finds other people murdered. One of those murdered is a woman found in a lake near where the Kingsbys own a cabin. But what Marlowe learns is that to find Chrystal and discover the reasons for the additional murders, he has to dig through a complex web, which also includes the involvement of the police.
Robert Montgomery
Phillip Marlowe
Audrey Totter
Adrienne Fromsett
Lloyd Nolan
Lt. DeGarmot
Tom Tully
Capt. Kane
Leon Ames
Derace Kingsby
Jayne Meadows
Mildred Havelend
Dick Simmons
Chris Lavery
Morris Ankrum
Eugene Grayson
Lila Leeds
Receptionist
William Roberts
Artist
Kathleen Lockhart
Mrs. Grayson
Ellay Mort
Chrystal Kingsby
Eddie Acuff
Ed -- Coroner
Charles Bradstreet
Party Guest
David Cavendish
Party Guest
Wheaton Chambers
Property Clerk
Roger Cole
Party Guest
Frank Dae
Party Guest
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