Complex, courageous, and utterly compelling.
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02/09/06
The Lady from Shanghai (1948)
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Reviews Counted: 27
Fresh: 23
Rotten:4
Average Rating: 7.9/10
Runtime: 87 mins
Genre: Dramas
Synopsis: 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... [More]
Starring: Orson Welles, Rita Hayworth, Everett Sloane, Glenn Anders
Director: Orson Welles
Reviews for The Lady from Shanghai
Top Critic
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
02/14/07
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.
03/25/06
Top Critic 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.
03/23/06
Visually brilliant, complex thriller, from the master of the baroque crime film.
01/21/05
An uneven film, perhaps, but one which only seems to improve with age.
07/30/03
Forget Kane. The Lady From Shanghai presents Welles at his most finely tuned baroque.
03/10/03
...curious newcomers to Welles' work should leave this one 'til the end of his oeuvre (and I'm including Transformers: The Movie in that list).
01/17/03
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