The Lady from Shanghai
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Features
• Black & White
• Closed-captioned
• DVD-Video
• Full Screen
• NTSC
In Theaters : 09 June, 1948
DVD Release : 03 October, 2000 |
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I happened to watch Lady From Shanghai back to back with Gilda although there was not particular purpose I was trying to achieve by doing so. As I mentioned in the review of Gilda, published elsewhere in this space, do not ever exclude the young Rita Hayworth playing the title role of Gilda as one of the classic film femme fatales. She plays the femme fatale here as well but to much less affect. Her role as the scheming fatale does not stretch her talents, and here she is more of an appendage to the other main characters. The story line is the familiar one for femme fatales. Hooked up with some older man, husband or not but here a husband, who pays the bills for the hard luck waif. She then meets Mr. Right, or is it Mr. Fall Guy at the wrong time and things explode from there. In this case "Mr. Right" is none other that Orson Welles with an improbable Irish brogue but with all the wit and daring of an old-fashioned street Irishman. This mA nage is bound to lead to the only place that it can-murder.
The twists and turns of the plot are not the only thing that is interesting here. Orson Welles not only acted in the film but wrote the screenplay and produced it. His touch shows in the startling black and white close ups of the characters, especially the husband (played by Everett Sloan) and his law partner, as they go through their paces. At the end the classic hall of mirrors confrontation between Hayworth and Sloan is pure Welles. Welles may have had his ups and downs as actor, writer, director and producer but this effort holds up pretty well after 60 years.
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