The Lady from Shanghai

Director	Orson Welles
Year	1947
Country	USA
Runtime	1h 27m
Language	Cantonese, English In English and Cantonese with English Subtitles
Format	DCP
TMDB	View entry

Synopsis

Strapped for cash, Orson Welles made a spur-of-the-moment deal with Columbia Pictures honcho Harry Cohn to direct and star – alongside Welles’ wife at the time, Rita Hayworth – in an adaptation of a pulp novel. As you would expect with Welles, he turns the story of a convoluted murder plot into something of much greater import than the novel presupposes. The hall-of-mirrors climax of this film is rightly celebrated as one of the greatest moments in all of Hollywood cinema.

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