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Title: The Lady From Shanghai Year: 1947 Rating: ***1/2 |
Orson Welles's 1946 directorial noir adventure THE LADY FROM SHANGHAI is famous for the ending, but there are some worthy middle parts of this unique thriller that Welles cast ex-wife Rita Hayworth in, cutting off her luscious GILDA hair and ticking off studio-heads right off the bat...
Not that it matters... Hayworth's performance isn't that "wicked" and yet she is fitfully vulnerable: particularly in a corny horse-and-carriage scene Welles opposed, introducing both his contentedly poor Irishman, Mike "Black Irish" O'Hara to Hayworth's rich, sullen Elsa, wife of a crippled, snaky and hugely infamous lawyer played by Everette Sloane...
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Orson Welles in The Lady From Shanghai with Rita Hayworth |
Sadly, he's as lackluster as she is — but on the other hand, Ted de Corsia as Sloane's secret gumshoe fulfills the "hard-boiled" edge while Glenn Anders shines in this "road movie" at sea...
Welles the initially reluctant hired/rented captain of Sloane's yacht, taking his "party" around South America/Cape Horn back up to San Fransisco as the best scenes take place in-between, at a Spanish seaport where Anders, as Sloane's law partner, George (far more spontaneous, crooked, and sometimes downright outrageous) starts messing with the good captain's head (and the audience's too)...
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Orson Welles in The Lady From Shanghai with Rita Hayworth |
In what's mostly a breezy action/adventure yarn that (as Welles has bemoaned) wields a far too melodramatic score, making every scene concerning boy and girl seem like a soap operatic engagement instead of a seductive entanglement...
All leading to that famous finale, which makes up for Anders no longer being around since he was basically all the fun before the fun house.
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Orson Welles and Glenn Anders in THE LADY FROM SHANGHAI |
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Orson Welles and Glenn Anders in THE LADY FROM SHANGHAI |
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Everette Sloane in THE LADY FROM SHANGHAI |
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Ted de Corsia and Rita Hayworth in THE LADY FROM SHANGHAI |
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Glenn Anders in THE LADY FROM SHANGHAI |
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Rita Hayworth in THE LADY FROM SHANGHAI |
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Orson Welles in THE LADY FROM SHANGHAI |
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Everette Sloane, Gus Schilling and Louis Merrill in The Lady from Shanghai
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Rita Hayworth and an eel in THE LADY FROM SHANGHAI |
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Rita Hayworth and sharks in THE LADY FROM SHANGHAI |
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Glenn Anders in THE LADY FROM SHANGHAI |
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Rita Hayworth in THE LADY FROM SHANGHAI |
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Orson Welles in THE LADY FROM SHANGHAI |
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Orson Welles in THE LADY FROM SHANGHAI |
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The most borrowed homage-driven scene ever done with mirrors from The Lady FROM Shanghai
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Glenn Anders and Orson Welles in THE LADY FROM SHANGHAI |
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Glenn Anders and Orson Welles in THE LADY FROM SHANGHAI |
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Orson Welles in THE LADY FROM SHANGHAI |
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Ted DeCorsia and Everett Sloane in THE LADY FROM SHANGHAI |
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