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The Lady from Shanghai (1947) [ReUp]

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The Lady from Shanghai (1947) [ReUp]

The Lady from Shanghai (1947)
DVD5 | ISO+MDS | NTSC 4:3 | Cover | 01:27:26 | 4,26 Gb
Audio: #1 English, #2 French, #3 Portuguese, #4 Spanish - each AC3 2.0 @ 192 Kbps
Subtitles: Chinese, English, French, Korean, Portuguese, Spanish and Thai
Genre: Crime, Drama, Film-Noir

Director: Orson Welles
Stars: Rita Hayworth, Orson Welles, Everett Sloane

Michael O'Hara, against his better judgement, hires on as a crew member of Arthur Bannister's yacht, sailing to San Francisco. They pick up Grisby, Bannister's law partner, en route. Bannister has a wife, Rosalie, who seems to like Michael much better than she likes her husband. After they dock in Sausalito, Michael goes along with Grisby's weird plan to fake his (Grisby's) murder so he can disappear untailed. He wants the $5000 Grisby has offered, so he can run off with Rosalie. But Grisby turns up actually murdered, and Michael gets blamed for it. Somebody set him up, but it is not clear who or how. Bannister (the actual murderer?) defends Michael in court.


Orson Welles is so often identified as a legendary filmmaker that sometimes his performances are overlooked. Case in point: his Michael O'Hara in The Lady from Shanghai. He's a roughneck Irish sailor with no real home and very often no job. His latest employer, Rita Hayworth, keeps emphasizing how big and strong he is. We don't often associate "big and strong" with Orson Welles, but we buy it here.

Of course, The Lady from Shanghai is also a brilliant movie, and everything in it is terrific.

The Lady from Shanghai (1947) [ReUp]

According to legend, Welles pitched it to producer Harry Cohn on the phone hoping for some quick cash to finish his theatrical production Around the World in 80 Days. A copy of Sherwood King's novel The Lady from Shanghai was nearby and Welles sung its praises without even knowing what it was about. But it got him a job, his last for a major Hollywood studio until Touch of Evil ten years later.

The Lady from Shanghai (1947) [ReUp]

Welles' Michael O'Hara saves Elsa Bannister (Hayworth) from a mugging in the park, and she subsequently hires him to work on her husband's boat. Her husband (Everett Sloane) is a rich lawyer, a twisted old rat who lurches around on two canes. Elsa flirts with Michael just enough to get him interested and to start him down the road to hell. When he thinks he has a chance with her; that she will run off with him, he accepts a shady deal to murder a man for money – and winds up framed. He escapes from his own trial and winds up with the usual suspects in the house of mirrors at San Francisco's now defunct Playland.

The Lady from Shanghai (1947) [ReUp]

That mirror sequence is one of Welles' most memorable, using the reflections in all kinds of surreal and spooky ways, enlarging them, duplicating them, etc. It recalls the climactic shot of Citizen Kane when the decrepit Kane walks in front of the series of mirrors.

The Lady from Shanghai (1947) [ReUp]

The rest of the film is just as bizarre. Welles films the entire picture as if in a house of mirrors. Everything feels distorted, and sounds are often too loud or too soft. In one creepy scene, George Grisby (Glenn Anders) proposes the murder plot to Michael. Welles finishes it off with a shot of Grisby looking over Michael's shoulder, too high to meet his eye, and suddenly yelping the line, "so long fella!" accompanied by a burst of music. The look on Michael's bewildered face reflects just how we feel at that moment.

The Lady from Shanghai (1947) [ReUp]

Because Welles cast his ex-wife Hayworth in the female role, and cut and bleached her trademark wavy red hair, the film was seen as a kind of attack on her. It subsequently failed at the box office. Fortunately, it's now one of Welles' easiest films to see (after Kane). It's frequently revived and available on a great DVD, and it's only available in one definitive cut, as opposed to the various different versions of Othello, Mr. Arkadin and Touch of Evil.

The Lady from Shanghai (1947) [ReUp]

Thankfully, the growing popularity of The Lady from Shanghai might also help dispel the myth that Welles never made anything good after Kane. If only his other ten features were so readily available.
The Lady from Shanghai (1947) [ReUp]

The film, reedited by the studio and taken completely out of Welles' hand and cut from its over two hour length to 90 minutes, became a b.o. disaster and exiled Welles from Hollywood for almost a decade (until Touch of Evil in 1958). It makes you wonder how any great film ever gets made, since Welles is not the only great filmmaker treated with such contempt by the studios, the mass public and the critics.
Dennis Schwartz: "Ozus' World Movie Reviews"
The Lady from Shanghai (1947) [ReUp]

Special Features:
- Audio commentary by Peter Bogdanovich
- "A Conversation with Peter Bogdanovich" featurette
- 2 cast biographies (Orson Welles and Rita Hayworth)
- Theatrical trailer
- Bonus trailer for "Gilda"
- "Vintage Advertising" gallery

All Credits goes to Original uploader.

No More Mirrors, Please.


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