The Lady From Shanghai (1948)

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Genres:

Classics | Drama

Languages:

English

Reviews:

1 reviews

Released:

18 August 2003

Format:

DVD

Staring

Director

Orson Welles

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lady from shanghai

JIM from Dublin, 12 Jul 2007

near perfect example of film noir, multi layered and fascinating tale,enhanced by the fact that welles was married to rita hayworth at the time

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The Lady From Shanghai, a complex, involving puzzle-within-a-puzzle mystery story, is a showcase for Orson Welles, showing his singular talents and sensibilities as few other films have. The story is superficially simple: a seaman Michael O'Hara (Welles) is hired as a crew member on the yacht of the wealthy Banister (Everett Sloane). His beautiful but mysterious wife Elsa (Rita Hayworth) has met O'Hara earlier, when he saved her from a mugging. What ensues is a complicated...

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