The Lady in the Car With Glasses and a Gun

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The Lady in the Car With Glasses and a Gun

R

Released Dec 25, 1970

1h 40m

Mystery & Thriller

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A secretary (Samantha Eggar) leaves Paris in her boss's (Oliver Reed) car, drives south and meets strangers who seem to know her.

Jay Cocks

TIME Magazine

The movie is one of those carefully jumbled jigsaw puzzles and comes complete with a rushed, not totally satisfactory explanation at the end.

Mar 18, 2020

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Tom Milne

Time Out

The tortuous mystifications and ponderings (shakily shored up by the revelation that she sometimes suffers bouts of amnesia) wear out their welcome long before the final gush of explanations.

Mar 18, 2020

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Roger Greenspun

New York Times

Samantha Eggar is so fine that she is in herself sufficient justification for the movie.

Mar 18, 2020

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Tony Mastroianni

Cleveland Press

Mystery-starved audiences may find some of this diverting, about the first half of it anyway. But the movie achieves a sort of plateau and never moves from it.

Mar 18, 2020

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Christopher Hudson

The Spectator

In attempting to ingratiate itself with everyone, the film manages to appeal to nobody.

Mar 17, 2020

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Dilys Powell

Sunday Times (UK)

I say a thriller; but the mystifications crawl along, only to crawl back over the ground in an equally sluggish interpretation.

Mar 16, 2020

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Anatole Litvak

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Samantha Eggar

Danielle Lang

Oliver Reed

Michael Caldwell

John McEnery

Yves-Marie

Stéphane Audran

Anita Caldwell

Bernard Fresson

Jean Yvain

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Synopsis

A secretary (Samantha Eggar) leaves Paris in her boss's (Oliver Reed) car, drives south and meets strangers who seem to know her.

Director: Anatole Litvak
Producer: Anatole Litvak, Raymond Danon
Screenwriter: Sébastien Japrisot, Anatole Litvak
Distributor: Columbia Pictures
Rating: R
Genre: Mystery & Thriller
Original Language: English
Release Date (Theaters): Dec 25, 1970, Limited
Runtime: 1h 40m