Title:The Lady From Shanghai
Date: 1947
Type: Thriller
Rating: 4/5
Colour: Yes
Director: Orson Welles
Producer: Orson Welles
Comment
A seaman who is down on his luck and has a history saves a beautiful lady from being robbed. He is then persuaded to help crew a pleasure yacht for her, her husband and his business partner. He is manipulated by all three of them as he lets his passion for her draw him into a complex web of deceit and finally murder. This has a typically complex film noir plot, but it is the production from Orson Welles that makes this film stand out. It is also helped by a sensual performance from sultry Rita Hayworth to whom he wsa married at the time.
Actors
Rita Hayworth
Orson Welles
Everett Sloane
Glenn Anders
Ted de Corsia
Oscars
None