Double Feature
Lady on a Train
Deanna Durbin makes merry mystery history in her first hilarious who-done-it! On a train to visit her aunt in New York for the holidays, a woman witnesses a murder in a nearby building. But when she reports the homicide to the police, they think she’s just read one too many stories. Now she’ll team with a best-selling crime novelist to find the killer… if the killer doesn’t find her first.
- Director
- Charles David
- Writer
- Screenplay by Edmund Beloin and Robert O'Brien, Original story by Leslie Charteris
- Starring
- Deanna Durbin, Ralph Bellamy, David Bruce, George Coulouris, Allen Jenkins, Dan Duryea, Edward Everett Horton
- Year
- 1945
- Country
- USA
- Format
- 35mm
- Running Time
- 94 minutes
Lady in the Lake
Robert Montgomery stars in and directs this snappy adaptation of Raymond Chandler’s hardboiled detective mystery. Montgomery plays Marlowe, private eye. As director, he’s also the film’s private eyes, using a subjective camera presenting the action from Marlowe’s point of view. What Marlowe sees, we see. When he gets slugged, we slip into blackness. The case begins when Marlowe sets out to find the missing wife of a publishing magnate. Several smack-arounds, one dead gigolo, a few angry cops, a booze-soaked frame-up and one dame in the lake later, Marlowe finds the killer… and finds he’s looking at the business end of a gun. (Warner Bros.)
- Director
- Robert Montgomery
- Writer
- Screenplay by Steve Fisher based on the novel by Raymond Chandler
- Starring
- Robert Montgomery, Audrey Totter, Lloyd Nolan, Tom Tully, Leon Ames
- Year
- 1946
- Country
- USA
- Format
- 35mm
- Running Time
- 105 minutes