The Lady from Shanghai overview
Overall Rating
Total Ratings: 1
Synopsis:
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 and bizarre pattern of deception, fraud and murder, with O'Hara finding himself implicated in a murder, despite his innocence.
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Movie Details:
- Director: Orson Welles
- Studio: Columbia Pictures
- Year: 1948
- Run Time: 87 minutes
- Country: USA
- Language: English
- MPAA Rating: NR
- Category: Feature
- Genre/Type: Thriller
- Filmed in: B&W
