Lady in the Lake
Dec 19, 1946 | IMDB 6
105 min Watch NowMystery, Thriller, Crime
Private eye Phillip Marlowe wants to get out of the detective racket and into crime writing. But when he's called to the office of editor Adrienne Fromsett, it's not to talk about his story ideas — she wants him to locate the missing wife of her boss, Mr. Kingsby. The assignment quickly becomes complicated when bodies start turning up.
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Tomie
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A Slight Case of Murder
The Crooked Way
I Love Trouble
Guilty Bystander
Ruthless
The Human Jungle
The Glass Web
I, the Jury
The Long Wait
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IMDB 6.3 | Jul , 1948
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IMDB 5.3 | May , 1996
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IMDB 5.1 | Oct , 1998
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IMDB 6.5 | Feb , 1949
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IMDB 6.2 | Apr , 1954
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IMDB 5.4 | Jun , 1949
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IMDB 5.3 | Oct , 1998
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IMDB 5.4 | Oct , 1953
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IMDB 5.7 | Sep , 1954
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IMDB 6.3 | Sep , 1999
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IMDB 5.5 | Apr , 1950
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IMDB 5.5 | Apr , 1948
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IMDB 4.8 | Oct , 1954
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IMDB 6 | Nov , 1953
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IMDB 5.7 | Aug , 1953
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IMDB 5.8 | May , 1954
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