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The Lady in the Car With Glasses and a Gun

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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.

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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 Full Review 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 Full Review Roger Greenspun New York Times Samantha Eggar is so fine that she is in herself sufficient justification for the movie. Mar 18, 2020 Full Review 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 Full Review Christopher Hudson The Spectator In attempting to ingratiate itself with everyone, the film manages to appeal to nobody. Mar 17, 2020 Full Review 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 Full Review Read all reviews

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Stephen C Success in 1 hour and 40 minutes!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Rated 5 out of 5 stars 06/27/25 Full Review Read all reviews
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Cast & Crew

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Anatole Litvak

Director

Samantha Eggar

Danielle Lang

Oliver Reed

Michael Caldwell

John McEnery

Yves-Marie

Stéphane Audran

Anita Caldwell

Bernard Fresson

Jean Yvain

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Movie Info

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