A 1947 film noir directed by and starring Robert Montgomery, shot almost entirely from the subjective first-person point of view of detective Philip Marlowe.
The most extreme experiment in first-person cinema in Hollywood history, demonstrating both the potential and the limits of radical POV — a negative lesson as much as a positive one for Nolan's development of subjective narrative.
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