The Lady from Shanghai (Blu-ray)
I told you... you know nothing about wickedness
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Blu-ray Details
- Rated: Not Rated
- Run Time: 1 hours, 28 minutes
- Video: Black & White
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: March 17, 2015
- Originally Released: 1947
- Label: Mill Creek Entertainment
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Rita Hayworth & Orson Welles | |
Performer: | Everett Sloane, Glenn Anders, Ted de Corsia, Erskine Sanford, Gus Schilling & Harry Shannon | |
Directed by | Orson Welles | |
Edited by | Viola Lawrence | |
Screenwriting by | Orson Welles | |
Composition by | Heinz Roemheld | |
Art Direction by | Stephen Goosson & Sturges Carne | |
Produced by | Orson Welles | |
Director of Photography: | Charles Lawton, Jr. |
Entertainment Reviews:
Rating: 5/5 --
It has an irresistible energy.
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Guardian
Rating: 5/5 --
The film is as tangled and ingenious as any of Welles's conjuring tricks. The shoot-out in the hall of mirrors is the most famous sequence, but there are other moments just as memorable.
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Independent (UK)
...[With] some fascinating visual set-pieces....They're up there with the darkest imaginings of Welles' genius...
Total Film
Rating: 3.5/4 --
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.
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Slant Magazine
4 stars out of 5 -- [T]here's still plenty to like about Welles' moody noir flick. The final scene remains a classic outro.
Empire
Rating: 4/5 --
Welles' dazzling direction more than makes up for any lack of viewer understanding.
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Total Film
The Boy Wonder is so busy playing with the tricks of the trade he forgets the trade itself.
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Daily Telegraph (Australia)
Product Description:
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.
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 all 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.
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 all 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.
Keywords:
Classic
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Suspense
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Thriller
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Racy
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Murder
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Film Noir
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Recommended
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Theatrical Release
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Essential Cinema
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Based On A Novel
Product Info
- Sales Rank: 128,089
- UPC: 683904632241
- Shipping Weight: 0.25/lbs (approx)
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