Phantom Lady (1944)
Unhappily married Scott Henderson spends the evening on a no-name basis with a hat-wearing woman he picked up in a bar... (imdb)
Cast and Information
Directed By: Robert Siodmak
Written By: Cornell Woolrich, Bernard C. Schoenfeld
Starring: Regis Toomey, Elisha Cook Jr., Franchot Tone, Thomas Gomez, Lillian Randolph, Alan Curtis, Ella Raines, Fay Helm, Aurora Miranda
Country: USA
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Phantom Lady belongs to 19 collections
1. Features under 91 minutes (collaborative: moderated by epiphany - 56 stars)
2. Film Noir (collaborative: moderated by PeaceAnarchy - 55 stars)
3. They Shoot Pictures 250 Quintessential Noir Films (collaborative: moderated by PeaceAnarchy - 38 stars)
4. They Shoot Pictures' Recommended Viewing (collaborative: moderated by Cinephile - 19 stars)
5. Films available in HD (collaborative: moderated by kubricksucks - 13 stars)
6. Doubling The Canon (collaborative - 13 stars)
7. 1,000 Noir Films: They Shot Dark Pictures, Didn't They? (collaborative: moderated by lisa- - 9 stars)
8. BFI 100 key Noir films (collaborative: moderated by PeaceAnarchy - 8 stars)
9. David Thomson's 1000 Films (collaborative: moderated by MMAlpha - 7 stars)
10. Doubling The Canon (2010 update) (collaborative: moderated by MMAlpha - 5 stars)
11. List: Noir of the Week (collaborative: moderated by KasperL - 3 stars)
12. Doubling the Canon (2011 update) (collaborative: moderated by MMAlpha - 1 star)
13. Doubling the Canon (2012 update) (collaborative: moderated by Cinephile - 1 star)
14. Cinetheque (public: allegreller - 1 star)
15. List: TSPDT's 100 Noir Films (public: KasperL - 1 star)
16. Noir, Not Hardboiled (public: Russ Bedford - 1 star)
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| Date | User | Rating | |
| Sep 09, 2020 |  |
JoeKinzo | 9 88th |
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Nifty film noir with an excellent performance by Ella Raines. The scene where she stares down the duplicitous bartender, night after night after night, is one of my all-time favorites.
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| Jun 12, 2020 |  |
nobamba | 70 76th |
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Multiple central women. Noir atmosphere with dark lighting. Guys lurking in the background. Movie starts in a bar. Great example of a film noir. Fav scene: we the audience see a guy lurking behind Ella before she does.
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| Apr 08, 2020 |  |
felixgartner | 85 70th |
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Femme is interestingly "life affirming". Jazz session montage is still ultra cool, I wonder if Damien Chazelle saw it before Whiplash.
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| Apr 10, 2019 | PUNQ | 60 89th |
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Felt like a mini-thriller. Never complete, but with a lot of great ideas. Robert Siodmak brings a bit of retro from his earlier influences of German Expressionism, by 1944 what was turning into film-noir, which was really something old in new wrapping. Used a little uneven here, but a darker style was clearly is hitting Hollywood at this point. Phantom Lady (1944) is a cool picture, a template of what to come.
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| May 25, 2016 |  |
oskarhu | 82 83rd |
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Small moments, nice noir cinematography and mysterious atmosphere made this exceptional although the unraveling wasn't nearly as great as the build-up. And Ella Raines is absolutely gorgeous.
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| Nov 02, 2014 |  |
RiverRivers | 85 86th |
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Yeah the premise is dumb, the ending is pretty lame, but this film is just one incredibly atmospheric and suspenseful scene after another. The cinematography is stunning, not to mention Ella Raines herself. It's easy to see why this was one of Robert Siodmak's best.
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| Apr 20, 2014 |  |
sidehacker | 66 43rd |
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Mostly just generic noir stuff. It looks kind of nice and there's a pretty lady, but not much there beyond it. I guess it gets credit because it doesn't follow the genre's conventional "helpless, conservative man driven out of his idyllic home life from mean, hot woman" but yeah, I'm not sure this is really my thing anymore.
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| Nov 13, 2012 |  |
joseywales | 78 82nd |
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Refreshing noir with a lot of very nice shots.
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| Feb 12, 2012 |  |
muutanet | 75 74th |
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I enjoyed much of the mood and shades of lighting. The sexually loaded drumming was fun as well. Different characters worked on different parts of they bodies, somebody with eyes, the other with hands. Nice. The plot's got some annoying holes though. Many good performances.
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| Nov 27, 2011 |  |
PeaceAnarchy | 90 94th |
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It'd be so easy to rip this film on its shaky premise and hokey resolution, but it executed everything so magnificently I didn't care. I was captivated from the start but it was Ella Raines' appearance about 20 minutes in that kicked everything into high gear. From that point on it was an intensely exciting ride as we watch her chase down a variety of shady characters in search of the titular phantom lady. Great cinematography and solid supporting roles from Tone and Cook seal the deal.
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| Apr 25, 2011 |  |
MartinTeller | 84 81st |
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There are some stunning sequences in this film. Some scenes (including what might be the only instance of a drum solo representing premature ejaculation) are textbook examples of noir photography. Not every scene is a knockout, but there's some marvelous framing and lighting throughout. And Raines is wonderful, supported by some great characters and faces. However, the plot has some pretty sizable holes, and the psychology is overcooked. Not a great noir, but a fun one with great moments.
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| Feb 02, 2010 |  |
zordon | 84 59th |
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The woman in this is actually the protagonist! Not the femme fatale, using sex as a weapon, or the gal Friday, cheerfully devoted to her boss' every whim, but the actual honest-to-God protagonist, with agency and everything!
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| Dec 04, 2009 | Mechatigger | 86 74th |
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A very intriguing mystery film.
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| Jul 25, 2009 |  |
tonydal | 75 56th |
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Sort of a precursor to A Kiss Before Dying...and a distinct improvement on Irish's/Woolrich's absurdly implausible book (even with the bowdlerizing of the characters required by the times). But still (perhaps inevitably) it's too bogged down in the nuts and bolts of the plot to get past its gimmicky nature. Had an awful lot to cram into an hour and a half, so it seems pretty sketchy at times.
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| Apr 13, 2007 |  |
Stain | 80 68th |
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Has too nice an ending to be noir but still a good thriller
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| Average Percentile 64.45% from 184 Ratings |  |