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The Notorious Landlady is a 1962 American comedy mystery film starring Kim Novak, Jack Lemmon, and Fred Astaire.[3][4] The film was directed by Richard Quine, with a script by Blake Edwards and Larry Gelbart.

The Notorious Landlady
Directed by	Richard Quine
Written by	Blake Edwards Larry Gelbart
Based on	The Notorious Tenant 1956 Collier's by Margery Sharp[1][2]
Produced by	Fred Kohlmar Richard Quine
Starring	Kim Novak Jack Lemmon Fred Astaire Lionel Jeffries Estelle Winwood
Cinematography	Arthur E. Arling
Edited by	Charles Nelson
Music by	George Duning
Color process	Black and white
Production company	Columbia Pictures
Distributed by	Columbia Pictures
Release date	July 26, 1962 (1962-07-26)
Running time	123 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English

Plot

When American diplomat William Gridley arrives in London, he rents the second floor of Carly Hardwicke's townhouse and promptly falls in love with his sexy new landlady. But Gridley isn't aware of what many people suspect—that Carly murdered her husband Miles. However, since there is no body, Carly cannot be prosecuted. A Scotland Yard inspector, Oliphant, visits the embassy and convinces Gridley to spy on her. However, that evening, a fire erupts as he and Carly grill steaks in her back yard. The fire makes Fleet Street headlines, and a scandal results. But since Carly is an American, she goes to the embassy to plead Gridley's case. She tells Gridley's boss, Franklyn Ambruster, that Gridley is a good man and not to transfer him out of the country. Ambruster is touched. He takes Carly to lunch, becomes smitten with her, and proclaims her innocence in the murder affair.

One evening, Miles turns up in the townhouse, alive and well. His uneasy reunion with Carly degenerates into violence. But when Miles tries to strangle her, Carly shoots and kills him. The fatal report is heard by Gridley while on the phone with Inspector Oliphant. But at the coroner's inquest, Carly is cleared when a crippled neighbor's private nurse testifies that Miles assaulted Carly. After the inquest, the nurse attempts to blackmail Carly over a pawn ticket to a candelabra that Miles had stuffed with stolen jewels. Carly and Gridley try to retrieve the candelabra but find the pawnbroker murdered. Gridley and Carly then locate the nurse in a Penzance retirement community. They catch her in the act of pushing her elderly patient off a cliff to silence her. (It was, in fact, the elderly patient who witnessed Miles and Carly fighting, not the nurse.) Gridley and Carly save the elderly lady as Ambruster and Oliphant arrive by helicopter. The crooked nurse is arrested and led away in cuffs.

Cast

Notes

Lemmon and Novak had appeared together on screen twice previously, in Phffft! (1954) and in Bell, Book and Candle (1958). In both later films, Novak portrayed a landlady.

The song "A Foggy Day (in London Town)" by George and Ira Gershwin serves as the main theme for the movie and was introduced in the 1937 Fred Astaire film A Damsel in Distress.

The opening London scenes set in so-called 'Gray Square' were filmed on The Columbia Ranch (the original back-lot of Columbia Pictures Studios at Burbank, California), now the Warner Bros. Ranch. For the closing scenes set on the cliffs of Cornwall, the location used was Point Lobos Reserve State Park, Carmel.

Nominations

• Nominated for Best Written American Comedy in 1963 at the WGA Awards.[5]

See also

• List of American films of 1962

References

External links

• The Notorious Landlady at IMDb
• The Notorious Landlady at Rotten Tomatoes
• The Notorious Landlady at AllMovie
• The Notorious Landlady at the TCM Movie Database
• The Notorious Landlady at the American Film Institute Catalog

На других языках

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- [en] The Notorious Landlady

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[ru] Тридцать три несчастья (фильм)

«Тридцать три несчастья» (англ. The Notorious Landlady) — детективная комедия режиссёра Ричарда Куайна 1962 года.

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