Daily Dialogue — June 10, 2010

Derris Kingsby: You want the facts, don’t you? 
 Philip Marlowe: When it comes to women, does anybody really want the facts?

 — Derris Kingsby (Leon Ames), Philip Marlowe (Robert Montgomery), Lady in the Like (1947), screenplay by Steve Fisher, based on the novel by Raymond Chandler

The Daily Dialogue theme this week is film noir movies.

Trivia: The entire movie plot unfolds from lead Robert Montgomery’s point of view, thus creating a rarity in film: the principal character is only seen on-screen as a reflection in mirrors and windows, and as the narrator speaking directly to the audience.