The Lady from Shanghai
The film is based on a novel written by Sherwood King. It is about an Irish-American sailor rescuing a beautiful woman from muggers in Central Park. He falls in love with her so he does not that he is related to a insurance plot.
20 June 1908, New York City, New York, USA
January 12, 1897 in Chicago, Illinois, USA
1 April 1912, Winnipeg, Canada
5 November 1890, St. Louis, Missouri, USA
2 January 1915, New York City, New York, USA
1 October 1909, New York City, New York, USA
August 1, 1897 in Georgia, USA
13 June 1890, Saginaw, Michigan, USA
29 September 1905, Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA
5 July 1907, Callahan County, Texas, USA
11 March 1915, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
6 May 1915, Kenosha, Wisconsin, USA
July 25, 2014
The storyline is almost incidental to the disorientating inventiveness of The Lady from Shanghai.
July 24, 2014
It has an irresistible energy.
January 28, 2014
Be warned: This is a film that collects obsessives.
July 24, 2014
Time proves this to be insanely ambitious and batty in the best sense.
January 27, 2014
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.
February 20, 2014
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.
February 11, 2009
Script is wordy and full of holes which need the plug of taut story telling and more forthright action.
January 28, 2014
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.
July 24, 2014
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.
July 24, 2014
The hall-of-mirrors shootout finale is a canonic classic.
July 23, 2014
A magnificent mess of switchbacks and revelations, climaxing with one of cinema's most outrageously inventive sequences.
July 24, 2014
The plot's pleasingly convoluted, the performances amusingly varied, the mood sinisterly sustained. But the set-pieces are the work of a genius.
