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This classic film tells the tale of a man who is hired to work on the yacht of the crippled husband of a very attractive lady, and soon mystery and murder at sea make their appearance...

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ProducerOrson Welles

EAN5060697920734

eBay Product ID (ePID)19048560536

Product Key Features

ActorHarry Shannon, Everett Sloane, Erskine Sanford, Gus Schilling, Ted De Corsia, Glenn Anders, Orson Welles, Rita Hayworth

Film/TV TitleThe Lady from Shanghai

DirectorOrson Welles

LanguageEnglish

Run Time87 Mins

FormatBlu-ray

Release Year2020

Features(Standard Edition)

GenreDrama, General

Additional Product Features

Number of Discs1

CertificatePG

Country/Region of ManufactureUnited States of America

ComposerHeinz Roemheld

Additional InformationTHE LADY FROM SHANGHAI, an atmospheric film noir based on Sherwood King's novel IF I DIE BEFORE I WAKE, features Orson Welles as producer, director, screenwriter, and star. Welles plays rogue seaman Michael O'Hara, complete with Irish brogue. After saving beautiful Elsa Bannister (Rita Hayworth) from thieves in Central Park, O'Hara is requested to serve on the yacht owned by Elsa's husband Arthur (Welles veteran Everett Sloane), an older man who needs special crutches in order to walk. A fiery passion lurks beneath the relationship between Michael and Elsa (in actuality, the marriage between Welles and Hayworth was ending at the time the film was shot). Enter George Grisby (the eerie-sounding Glenn Anders), one of Bannister's associates and a man with a very special offer for O'Hara, luring him into a web of lies and murder.<BR>Although Welles claimed he made THE LADY FROM SHANGHAI just to finance other projects and the film does not show off his typical Wellesian flair, it still plays like a classic noir that draws the viewer in and never lets go. The characters are complex and fascinating, and the tension runs high and hot as the truth behind the lies starts to come out. The film is most famous for its thrilling climax, which takes place in a hall of mirrors. Welles might have considered THE LADY FROM SHANGHAI workmanlike, but this noir thriller is only as workmanlike as any Welles film can be.

Art DirectorStephen Goosson, Sturges Carne

ScreenwriterOrson Welles

AuthorSherwood King

Sound sourceDolby Digital

Movie/TV TitleThe Lady From Shanghai

EditorViola Lawrence

Director of PhotographyCharles Lawton

Consumer AdviceContains mild violence, scenes of smoking