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Key Information
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| Directors: |
Orson Welles |
| Stars: |
Orson Welles |
| Actors: |
Glenn Anders |
| Genre: |
Dramas |
| Subgenre: |
Suspense · Recommended · Murder · Racy · Film Noir · Based On A Novel · Essential Cinema · Classic · Thriller |
| MPAA Rating: |
Not Rated |
| Available Formats: |
VHS |
| UPC: |
043396048591 |
| Release Date: |
1948 |
| Running Time: |
1hr 27min |
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Languages
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| Original Language: |
English |
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DVD Editions
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Format: DVD, 1hr 27min
Release Company: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment (October 03, 2000)
UPC: 043396048591 |
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VHS Editions
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Format: VHS, 1hr 27min |
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Credits
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| Screenwriter: |
Orson Welles |
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Professional Reviews
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(11/01/2003, p.123, Jonathan Crocker): "...[With] some fascinating visual set-pieces....They're up there with the darkest imaginings of Welles' genius..." |
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Quotes from the Movie
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"You need more than luck in Shanghai."--Elsa Bannister (Rita Hayworth) to Michael O'Hara (Orson Welles) |
| More Information |
| Details: |
THE 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, co-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 underneath 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> <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... |
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