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The lady from Shanghai [videorecording] / directed and written by Orson Welles.

Contributor(s): Welles, Orson [director,, writer.] | Hayworth, Rita [actor.] | Sloane, Everett [actor.]Material type: FilmFilmPublisher number: CDR17896 | Sony Pictures Home Ent.Publication details: Sony Pictures Home Ent., 2003Description: 1 videodisc (87 min.) : sd., b&w. ; 12 cmContained works: King, Sherwood, 1904 -, If I die before I wakeSubject(s): Feature films | Film noirDDC classification: 791.437
Contents:
Feature film - Special features: Peter Bogdanovich audio commentary; A conversation with Peter Bogdanovich; Filmographies; Bonus trailers; Vintage advertising.
Cast: Cast: Orson Welles, Rita Hayworth, Everett Sloane, Glenn Anders, Ted de Corsia, Erskine Sanford, Gus Schilling, Carl Frank, Lou Merrill, Evelyn Ellis.Summary: Orson Welles directs, produces, writes and stars in this maritime film noir. When unemployed Irishman Michael O'Hara (Welles) saves Elsa Bannister (Rita Hayworth) from some thugs, she obtains him a position on her invalid lawyer husband Arthur's (Everett Sloane) yacht, as a deckhand. It soon becomes clear that Elsa now has designs on O'Hara, and also wants her husband out of the way. O'Hara, although resisting Elsa's advances, finds himself becoming embroiled in a web of intrigue and murder. The famous hall of mirrors sequence is considered to be one of the greatest scenes in film history.
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Film originally released in 1948.

Based on the novel 'If I die before I wake' by Sherwood King.

Feature film - Special features: Peter Bogdanovich audio commentary; A conversation with Peter Bogdanovich; Filmographies; Bonus trailers; Vintage advertising.

Cast: Orson Welles, Rita Hayworth, Everett Sloane, Glenn Anders, Ted de Corsia, Erskine Sanford, Gus Schilling, Carl Frank, Lou Merrill, Evelyn Ellis.

Orson Welles directs, produces, writes and stars in this maritime film noir. When unemployed Irishman Michael O'Hara (Welles) saves Elsa Bannister (Rita Hayworth) from some thugs, she obtains him a position on her invalid lawyer husband Arthur's (Everett Sloane) yacht, as a deckhand. It soon becomes clear that Elsa now has designs on O'Hara, and also wants her husband out of the way. O'Hara, although resisting Elsa's advances, finds himself becoming embroiled in a web of intrigue and murder. The famous hall of mirrors sequence is considered to be one of the greatest scenes in film history.

BBFC code: PG.

DVD.

Language on the film: English, French, German, Italian, Spanish. Subtitles in Arabic, Bulgarian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hindi, Hungarian, Icelandic, Italian, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Spanish, Swedish and Turkish.

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