# What Movie Did I See Part Of--Camera POV Was A Character **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [December 7, 2006, 1:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movie-did-i-see-part-of-camera-pov-was-a-character/383158 "2006-12-07T01:01:06Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Sir\_Rhosis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d9b06d/32.png) [@Sir\_Rhosis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sir_Rhosis)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2006, 1:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movie-did-i-see-part-of-camera-pov-was-a-character/383158/1 "2006-12-07T01:01:06Z")
Earlier today was at the hospital w/my wife (she’ll be fine) and semi-watched a few minutes of a B/W movie (no sound on the set). The characters addrressed the camera as a character, but in what I saw we never left this subjective POV to reveal who (or what) the character was. I believe I may have spotted a young Lauren Bacall driving an old panel van gabbing away with this unseen person. From what I saw, it seemes like something I might like to seek out. Looked to be late-1940s/early-50s. Anybody…? Sir Rhosis ---
**Author:** ![pseudotriton\_ruber\_ruber](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/a9a28c/32.png) [@pseudotriton\_ruber\_ruber](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pseudotriton_ruber_ruber)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2006, 1:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movie-did-i-see-part-of-camera-pov-was-a-character/383158/2 "2006-12-07T01:12:43Z")
[QUOTE=Sir Rhosis] Earlier today was at the hospital w/my wife (she’ll be fine) and semi-watched a few minutes of a B/W movie (no sound on the set). The characters addrressed the camera as a character, but in what I saw we never left this subjective POV to reveal who (or what) the character was. I believe I may have spotted a young Lauren Bacall driving an old panel van gabbing away with this unseen person. From what I saw, it seemes like something I might like to seek out. Looked to be late-1940s/early-50s. Anybody…? Sir Rhosis [/QUOTE] Lady in the Lake? Was Robert Montgomery in it? ---
**Author:** ![pseudotriton\_ruber\_ruber](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/a9a28c/32.png) [@pseudotriton\_ruber\_ruber](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pseudotriton_ruber_ruber)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2006, 1:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movie-did-i-see-part-of-camera-pov-was-a-character/383158/3 "2006-12-07T01:16:27Z")
No Bacall, though. > **[Lady in the Lake (1946) ⭐ 6.5 | Crime, Film-Noir, Mystery](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0039545/)** > > 1h 45m | Passed ---
**Author:** ![Sir\_Rhosis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d9b06d/32.png) [@Sir\_Rhosis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sir_Rhosis)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2006, 1:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movie-did-i-see-part-of-camera-pov-was-a-character/383158/4 "2006-12-07T01:17:16Z")
I don’t recall seeing him, but I really only know Montgomery from the boxer goes to heaven and forty years later Warren Beatty follows him movie. After Bacall, “Camera” talked to a cabbie, then went to a hotel room and talked to some guy there. I think a pair of hands (the hands of the camera character) handed the guy in the hotel a saxaphone. Any help? Sir Rhosis ---
**Author:** ![Sir\_Rhosis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d9b06d/32.png) [@Sir\_Rhosis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sir_Rhosis)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2006, 1:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movie-did-i-see-part-of-camera-pov-was-a-character/383158/5 "2006-12-07T01:18:22Z")
May not have been Bacall. I’ll look at the link now. SR ---
**Author:** ![Sir\_Rhosis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d9b06d/32.png) [@Sir\_Rhosis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sir_Rhosis)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2006, 1:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movie-did-i-see-part-of-camera-pov-was-a-character/383158/6 "2006-12-07T01:27:18Z")
Well, hard to tell, but that sounds like it, I guess. I only saw maybe ten minutes of it, and wasn’t paying super close attention. There was a scene where we do see somebody with a completely bandaged head that looked to be filmed in regular omniscient (or whatever the word is) camerawork. At that moment, the deoctor called and that was all I saw. Sir Rhosis ---
**Author:** ![Governor\_Quinn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/d26b3c/32.png) [@Governor\_Quinn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Governor_Quinn)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2006, 1:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movie-did-i-see-part-of-camera-pov-was-a-character/383158/7 "2006-12-07T01:54:12Z")
According to TCM, what you saw was [the 1947 movie _Dark Passage_](http://www.tcm.com/thismonth/article/?cid=33817), which used the same gimmick as _Lady in the Lake_. ---
**Author:** ![DesertDog](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/desertdog/32/11503_2.png) [@DesertDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DesertDog)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2006, 1:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movie-did-i-see-part-of-camera-pov-was-a-character/383158/8 "2006-12-07T01:57:19Z")
I’m guessing [Dark Passage](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0039302/). It’s got Becall, it’s got Bogie, and it’s playing in rotation on TCM right now, says IMDb. The early scenes are all character POV of a con who breaks out of San Quentin. Becall and a friendly cabbie take the con to a plastic surgeon and after the bandages are removed the con is Bogie. I don’t remember any saxophone, but it’s been decades since I’ve seen it. ---
**Author:** ![Sir\_Rhosis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d9b06d/32.png) [@Sir\_Rhosis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sir_Rhosis)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2006, 2:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movie-did-i-see-part-of-camera-pov-was-a-character/383158/9 "2006-12-07T02:11:58Z")
Thanks, that’s it. It may not have been a sax, as I said I wasn’t giving it more than compartmental attention, but I thought I remembered him handing something with “keys” to the guy in the hotel. Hell, I may have been thinking of something else in yet another corner of my mind as I saw the scene. Sir Rhosis