The lady from Shanghai [videorecording] / Columbia Pictures Corporation ; screenplay and production, Orson Welles.
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FilmPublisher number: 04859 | Columbia TriStar Home VideoLanguage: English, French, Spanish, Portuguese Summary language: Chinese, English, French, Korean, Spanish, Thai Original language: English Series: Columbia classics (DVD videodiscs)Publication details: Culver City, Calif. : Columbia TriStar Home Video, [2000]Edition: Full screen versionDescription: 1 videodisc (87 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 inISBN: - 0767848810
- 9780767848817
- Director of photography, Charles Lawton, Jr. ; film editor, Viola Lawrence ; music, Heinz Roemheld.
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
The Lady From Shanghai, a complex, involving puzzle-within-a-puzzle mystery story, is a showcase for Orson Welles, showing his singular talents and sensibilities as few other films have. The story is superficially simple: a seaman Michael O'Hara (Welles) is hired as a crew member on the yacht of the wealthy Banister (Everett Sloane). His beautiful but mysterious wife Elsa (Rita Hayworth) has met O'Hara earlier, when he saved her from a mugging. What ensues is a complicated and bizarre pattern of deception, fraud and murder, with O'Hara finding himself implicated in a murder, despite his innocence. The film is best remembered for its final sequence when the plot comes to a literally smashing climax in the famous "hall of mirrors" sequence, with Elsa and Banister shooting it out amidst shards of shattering glass. Orson Welles, who produced, directed, wrote and starred in the film, is sometimes self-indulgent in his use of visual tricks and techniques, which at times sacrifice plot for visual brilliance, but he pulls it together in the end to produce a stunning, difficult film. Rita Hayworth gives one of her best performances as the deceptive, seductive temptress, hard-edged and cynical. The film confounds, unsettles and disorients the viewer, very much as Welles intended to do. While not an easy film, it is well worth the attention required to follow it, and Welles offers no easy solutions or any false happy endings to his tour-de-force mystery. ~ Linda Rasmussen, Rovi
Based on the novel: If I die before I wake / by Sherwood King.
Originally released as motion picture in 1948.
Special features: exclusive featurette; Peter Bogdanovich audio commentary; production notes; vintage advertising; talent files; theatrical trailer; bonus trailers.
Start -- Danger ahead -- My name's Bannister -- A Few drinks -- George Grisby -- Money's everything -- Please don't kiss me -- Chinese love proverb -- Sharks -- $5000 proposition -- Is suicide wrong? -- You're going with me -- Partners in crime -- Aquarium meeting -- Settling accounts -- Target practice -- You was framed -- George has been murdered -- Greatest living trial lawyer -- The trial begins -- Arthur testifies -- Cross-examining himself -- Elsa under oath -- One way out -- You're the killer -- Fall guy -- Magic mirror maze -- I don't want to die!
Director of photography, Charles Lawton, Jr. ; film editor, Viola Lawrence ; music, Heinz Roemheld.
Rita Hayworth, Orson Welles, Everett Sloane, Glenn Anders, Ted de Corsia.
A seaman becomes involved in the murderous intrigue of a crippled lawyer and his homicidal, frustrated wife. Culminates in a shoot-up in a hall of mirrors.
DVD, region 1, NTSC; Dolby digital mono; digitally mastered audio & video; aspect ratio 1.33:1.
Optional soundtracks in English, French, Spanish, or Portuguese with optional subtitles in Spanish, French, Portuguese, Chinese, Korean, or Thai; closed-captioned in English.