The Lady from Shanghai (1947)

Directed by

Orson Welles

Genre

drama film, film noir

Country

United States

Runtime

1h 27m

Rated

12

Rating

7.3 of 10 from 729 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A naive sailor meets a mysterious woman and takes a job on her husband's yacht. He gets entangled in a scheme of lies and murder.

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What happens

The Lady from Shanghai is a 1947 American film noir produced and directed by Orson Welles and starring Rita Hayworth, Welles, Everett Sloane, and Glenn Anders. Welles's screenplay is based on the novel If I Die Before I Wake by Sherwood King. Although the Columbia Pictures film initially received mixed reviews, it has grown in stature over the years. In 2018, the film was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant." (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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