The Lady From Shanghai (DVD + Blu-ray)
I told you... you know nothing about wickedness
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The Lady from Shanghai (Blu-ray)
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Blu-ray BD-R Details
- 4x3 (FULL FRAME) ASPECT RATIO
- Run Time: 1 hours, 28 minutes
- Video: Black & White
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: April 3, 2015
- Originally Released: 1947
- Label: TCM Vaults Collection
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Rita Hayworth & Orson Welles | |
Directed by | Orson Welles | |
Written by | Orson Welles |
Entertainment Reviews:
Rating: 5/5 --
Time proves this to be insanely ambitious and batty in the best sense.
Little White Lies
[Welles] hurls restraint to the winds and when he is through with it, his poor little story is reduced to a dramatic pulp.
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Washington Star
Rating: 4/5 --
Welles' dazzling direction more than makes up for any lack of viewer understanding.
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Total Film
THE LADY FROM SHANGHAI is fueled by two powerfully grotesque characterizations. Everett Sloane and Glenn Anders make a vivid pair of reptiles, each embodying a prototypical Ugly American, a decade before the phrase entered the popular lexicon.
New York Times
The storyline is almost incidental to the disorientating inventiveness of The Lady from Shanghai.
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Electric Sheep
4 stars out of 5 -- [T]he delirious set-pieces -- the Magic Mirror Maze especially -- render Welles’ genius for sly subtexts crystal clear.
Total Film
...[With] some fascinating visual set-pieces....They're up there with the darkest imaginings of Welles' genius...
Total Film
Description by OLDIES.com:
DVD + Blu-ray Combo Pack. Orson Welles (Citizen Kane, 1941) wrote, directed and starred in this treacherous tale of a sailor (Welles) hired to help a beautiful woman (Rita Hayworth) and her disabled lawyer husband (Everett Sloane) sail their private yacht from New York to San Francisco via the Panama Canal. On board, he is bribed to fake the murder of the lawyers partner (Glenn Anders), only to find himself trapped in a deadly game of cat and mouse. Welles created a scandal, and lots of publicity, by having his wife Hayworth's trademark red locks cut short and bleached blonde for her role as a femme fatale, but the movie failed to score at the box office upon its release. Over time, critics have lavished praise on Welles's uncommon vision, which culminates with the most elaborately staged of all film noir finales the famous shootout in the hall of mirrors.
Additional content includes an introduction by Robert Osborne, Publicity Stills, Scene Stills, Behind-the-Scenes Photos, Movie Posters, Eddie Muller Commentary and more.
Additional content includes an introduction by Robert Osborne, Publicity Stills, Scene Stills, Behind-the-Scenes Photos, Movie Posters, Eddie Muller Commentary and more.
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
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- Sales Rank: 49,220
- UPC: 799861181101
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