The Notorious Landlady (1962)

Directed by

Richard Quine

Genre

mystery film, action comedy film

Country

United States

Runtime

2h 03m

Rated

NR

Rating

6.8 of 10 from 59 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

An American diplomat in London rents a room from a young woman. He falls for her even though she might have killed her husband.

lightheartedplayfulmysteriousromanticcomicsuspensefulcharmingwhimsical

What happens

The Notorious Landlady is a 1962 American comedy mystery film directed by Richard Quine from a screenplay by Larry Gelbart and Blake Edwards, based on the 1956 short story "The Notorious Tenant" by Margery Sharp. It stars Kim Novak, Jack Lemmon, and Fred Astaire, with Lionel Jeffries and Estelle Winwood. The film follows an American diplomat in London who rents a room from and falls in love with a young woman suspected of murder. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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