Fresh
A magnificent mess of switchbacks and revelations, climaxing with one of cinema's most outrageously inventive sequences.
Tom Huddleston, Time Out
The Lady from Shanghai
I told you... you know nothing about wickedness
1947 · 1h 27m · Not Rated
Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Directed by
Orson Welles
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The Lady from Shanghai
Overview
A romantic drifter gets caught between a corrupt tycoon and his voluptuous wife.
Director and cast
- Orson Welles Director
- Rita Hayworth as Elsa Bannister
- Orson Welles as Michael O'Hara
- Everett Sloane as Arthur Bannister
- Glenn Anders as George Grisby
- Ted de Corsia as Sidney Broome
- Erskine Sanford as Judge
- Gus Schilling as Goldfish
- Louis Merrill as Jake
- Carl Frank as District Attorney Galloway
- Evelyn Ellis Cast
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
83%
Tomatometer
Fresh
The climax, a shootout in a funhouse hall of mirrors, is one of the bravura sequences in all film, a triumph of hey-look-at-me form over just-the-facts content.
Mark Feeney, Boston Globe
Fresh
Be warned: This is a film that collects obsessives.
Joshua Rothkopf, Time Out New York
Fresh
For all the violations it suffered, The Lady From Shanghai seems strangely coherent in its extant form -- or rather, coherently incoherent, and in a way that seems quite deliberate.
Calum Marsh, Village Voice
Fresh
Welles and Hayworth were married at the time; he gives her closeups of unmatched rapture even while allegorizing his own fate as a free spirit caught in the trap of Hollywood's delusional pleasure dome.
Richard Brody, New Yorker
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