TY - ADVS AU - Welles,Orson AU - Hayworth,Rita AU - Sloane,Everett AU - King,Sherwood TI - The lady from Shanghai U1 - 791.437 22 PY - 2003/// PB - Sony Pictures Home Ent. KW - Feature films KW - Film noir N1 - 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; BBFC code: PG N2 - 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 ER -