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Released
1946 · FILM

Lady in the Lake

“You and Robert Montgomery Solve a Murder Mystery Together!”

Directed by
Robert Montgomery, Robert Montgomery Nm0599910
Written by
Steve Fisher, Raymond Chandler
Runtime
105 min
CrimeDramaFilm-Noir

Synopsis

Private investigator Phillip Marlowe is looking to transition from detective work to crime writing. However, his plans are interrupted when he is summoned to the office of editor Adrienne Fromsett, who does not call him to discuss his writing ideas but instead asks him to find the missing wife of her boss, Mr. Kingsby. The case soon grows more complex as a series of murders begin to occur.

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How many hands made this film

The scale of the collaboration

Principal cast & crew: 17

These are the principals we have on file — the full crew ran to the hundreds. Every film this size was made by far more hands than any credits list ever names.

Why a floor?

This is a minimum, not a total. We only count the credits we’ve captured so far, and coverage is uneven — a blockbuster might show a few hundred names while another of the same size shows a couple dozen. The real crews all ran into the thousands. The number here only grows as full credits are enriched — so we frame it as a floor, never a headcount.

Craft leads on file

Edited by Gene RuggieroShot by Paul VogelScored by David Snell

Box Office

1946 · Box office

✅ Made its money back — grossed 2.6× its budget

Why 2.5×?

Cinemas keep roughly half of every ticket sold, and a wide release’s marketing often costs about as much again as the film — so a movie needs to gross around 2.5× its production budget just to break even theatrically. It’s a rule of thumb, not the studio’s ledger (home video and streaming come later).

Worldwide gross

$2.7M

Budget$1.0M
Worldwide gross$2.7M
break-even (2.5×)

Also known as

  • Die Dame im Seede
  • La Dame du Lacen
  • The Lady in the Lakeen
  • La dama del lagoes
  • La Dame du lacfr
  • Una donna nel lagoit

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