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The Lady from Shanghai
Directed by
Orson Welles
Not Rated
1947
87m
Mystery
,
Crime
,
and more
7.5
86%
84%
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Fascinated by gorgeous Mrs. Bannister, seaman Michael O'Hara joins a bizarre yachting cruise, and ends up mired in a complex murder plot.
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Cast of The Lady from Shanghai
Rita Hayworth
Elsa Bannister
Orson Welles
Michael O'Hara / Director / Producer
Everett Sloane
Arthur Bannister
Glenn Anders
George Grisby
Ted de Corsia
Sidney Broome
Erskine Sanford
Judge
Gus Schilling
Goldfish
Carl Frank
District Attorney Galloway
Louis Merrill
Jake Bjornsen
Evelyn Ellis
Bessie
Harry Shannon
Cab Driver
William Alland
Reporter (uncredited)
Jessie Arnold
Schoolteacher at Aquarium / Courtroom Spectator (uncredited)
Wong Artarne
Ticket Taker (uncredited)
Rama Bai
Townswomen (uncredited)
Jack Baxley
Guard (uncredited)
Steve Benton
Policeman (uncredited)
Wong Chung
Li (uncredited)
Eddie Coke
Policeman (uncredited)
Tom Coleman
Courtroom Spectator (uncredited)
Al Eben
Policeman (uncredited)
Edythe Elliott
Old Lady (uncredited)
John Elliott
Court Clerk (uncredited)
Charles Ferguson
Man in Courthouse (uncredited)
Joseph Granby
Police Lieutenant (uncredited)
Alvin Hammer
Reporter (uncredited)
Theresa Harris
Courtroom Spectator (uncredited)
Maynard Holmes
Truck Driver (uncredited)
Tiny Jones
Courtroom Spectator (uncredited)
Byron Kane
Reporter (uncredited)
Milton Kibbee
Policeman (uncredited)
Grace Lem
Chinese Woman (uncredited)
Charles Meakin
Jury Foreman (uncredited)
Philip Morris
Port Steward / Officer Peters (uncredited)
Sam Nelson
Captain of Yacht Circe (uncredited)
Mary Newton
Reporter (uncredited)
Joe Palma
Cab Driver (uncredited)
Edward Peil Sr.
Guard (uncredited)
Gerald Pierce
Waiter (uncredited)
Joe Recht
Garage Attendant (uncredited)
Mabel Smaney
Woman (uncredited)
Harry Strang
Policeman (uncredited)
Norman Thomson
Policeman (uncredited)
Arthur Tovey
Courtroom Spectator (uncredited)
Philip Van Zandt
Policeman / Thug (uncredited)
Dorothy Vaughan
Old Woman (uncredited)
Blackie Whiteford
Big Coke Drinker with Vest (uncredited)
Richard Wilson
Assistant District Attorney (uncredited)
Raoul Freeman
Bailiff (uncredited)
Eumenio Blanco
Sailor (uncredited)
Vernon Cansino
Man (uncredited)
Doris Chan
Chinese Girl (uncredited)
George Chirello
Man (uncredited)
Peter Cusanelli
Bartender (uncredited)
Heenan Elliott
Guard (uncredited)
Robert Gray
Reporter (uncredited)
Preston Lee
Chinese Man (uncredited)
Billy Louie
Chinese Girl (uncredited)
Mike Morelli
Sailor (uncredited)
Theresa Testa
Townswoman (uncredited)
Eleanore Vogel
Courtroom Spectator (uncredited)
Glen Walters
Courtroom Spectator (uncredited)
Chalky Williams
Sailor (uncredited)
Jean Wong
Ticket Seller (uncredited)
Katherine Yorke
Pretty Woman (uncredited)
William Castle
Writer
Charles Lederer
Writer
Fletcher Markle
Writer
The Lady from Shanghai Ratings & Reviews
Boston Globe
Mark Feeney
The climax, a shootout in a funhouse hall of mirrors, is one of the bravura sequences in all film, a triumph of hey-look-at-me form over just-the-facts content.
Village Voice
Calum Marsh
For all the violations it suffered, The Lady From Shanghai seems strangely coherent in its extant form -- or rather, coherently incoherent, and in a way that seems quite deliberate.
The New Yorker
Richard Brody
Welles and Hayworth were married at the time; he gives her closeups of unmatched rapture even while allegorizing his own fate as a free spirit caught in the trap of Hollywood's delusional pleasure dome.
Slant Magazine
Chuck Bowen
It derives its tension from its almost pointed meaninglessness, which would appear to be a subterfuge for a personal expression that's never quite achieved.
Parallax View
Richard T. Jameson
... looms as the pivotal work of Welles's career, one of the greatest glories of the American cinema, and undoubtedly the trashiest masterpiece in motion picture history.
Variety
William Brogdon
Script is wordy and full of holes which need the plug of taut story telling and more forthright action.
Chicago Reader
Dave Kehr
The weirdest great movie ever made.
EmanuelLevy.Com
Emanuel Levy
One of Orson Welles' best films, this highlight of 1940s film noir stars Rita Hayworth at her most desirable. French director Francois Truffaut said it best: The raison d'etre for this work is "cinema itself"--the climactic mirror sequence is a stunner
New York Times
Bosley Crowther
For a fellow who has as much talent with a camera as Orson Welles and whose powers of pictorial invention are as fluid and as forcible as his, this gentleman certainly has a strange way of marring his films with sloppiness.
Boulder Weekly
Thomas Delapa
Like most of Welles' Hollywood efforts, Shanghai was shanghaied by studio tampering ... but it also contains some of his greatest set pieces, topped by the delirious shootout in the funhouse hall of mirrors.
Classic Film and Television
Michael E. Grost
Visually brilliant, complex thriller, from the master of the baroque crime film.
Dennis Schwartz Movie Reviews
Dennis Schwartz
A masterpiece in the bizarre and the complex.
Combustible Celluloid
Jeffrey M. Anderson
A brilliant movie, and everything in it is terrific.
Austin Chronicle
Marjorie Baumgarten
Forget Kane. The Lady From Shanghai presents Welles at his most finely tuned baroque.
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