
Lost Caverns Hotel bellhop Freddie Phillips is suspected of murder. Swami Talpur tries to hypnotize Freddie into confessing, but Freddie is too stupid for the plot to work. Inspector Wellman uses Freddie to get the killer (and it isn't the Swami).


“Did she...or did she?”
An American junior diplomat in London rents a house from, and falls in love with, a woman suspected of murder.

Kim Novak
Carly Hardwicke

Jack Lemmon
Bill Gridley

Fred Astaire
Franklyn Ambruster

Lionel Jeffries
Inspector Oliphant

Estelle Winwood
Mrs. Dunhill

Maxwell Reed
Miles Hardwicke

Philippa Bevans
Agatha Brown

Henry Daniell
Stranger

Ronald Long
Coroner
Richard Peel
Dillings
The Notorious Landlady is a comedy, mystery film released in 1962 exploring themes of diplomat, attempted murder, landlady. Directed by Richard Quine, it stars Kim Novak, Jack Lemmon, Fred Astaire. An American junior diplomat in London rents a house from, and falls in love with, a woman suspected of murder.
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