The Lady from Shanghai
The film is based on a novel written by Sherwood King. It is about an Irish-American sailor rescuing a beautiful woman from muggers in Central Park. He falls in love with her so he does not that he is related to a insurance plot.
2 February 1894, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
13 June 1890, Saginaw, Michigan, USA
August 1, 1897 in Georgia, USA
11 March 1915, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
9 May 1923, St. Albans, Vermont, USA
January 27, 1896 in Roswell, New Mexico, USA
4 March 1916, Delmar, Delaware, USA
27 February 1909, Weehawken, New Jersey, USA
April 27, 1918 in Drayton, North Dakota, USA
14 December 1909, New York, USA
17 June 1901, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada
31 December 1911, Houston, Texas, USA
4 October 1904, Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Netherlands
March 24, 1885 in Boston, Massachusetts, USA
1 September 1889, Los Angeles, California, USA
5 November 1890, St. Louis, Missouri, USA
20 June 1908, New York City, New York, USA
29 September 1905, Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA
December 13, 1892 in Clifton, Virginia, USA
April 24, 1894 in Atlanta, Georgia, USA
6 May 1915, Kenosha, Wisconsin, USA
February 23, 1902 in Canandaigua, New York, USA
March 24, 1887 in Blackstone, Massachusetts, USA
January 12, 1897 in Chicago, Illinois, USA
14 November 1904, Douglas, Arizona, USA
9 January 1891, Manzaneda, Ourense, Galicia, Spain
1 April 1912, Winnipeg, Canada
October 15, 1908 in Clay County, Georgia, USA
25 December 1915, McKeesport, Pennsylvania, USA
July 24, 2014
The plot's pleasingly convoluted, the performances amusingly varied, the mood sinisterly sustained. But the set-pieces are the work of a genius.
July 24, 2014
Time proves this to be insanely ambitious and batty in the best sense.
July 24, 2014
The hall-of-mirrors shootout finale is a canonic classic.
July 24, 2014
The film is as tangled and ingenious as any of Welles's conjuring tricks. The shoot-out in the hall of mirrors is the most famous sequence, but there are other moments just as memorable.
January 28, 2014
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.
July 25, 2014
The storyline is almost incidental to the disorientating inventiveness of The Lady from Shanghai.
January 27, 2014
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.
February 20, 2014
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.
July 24, 2014
It has an irresistible energy.
January 28, 2014
Be warned: This is a film that collects obsessives.
February 11, 2009
Script is wordy and full of holes which need the plug of taut story telling and more forthright action.
July 23, 2014
A magnificent mess of switchbacks and revelations, climaxing with one of cinema's most outrageously inventive sequences.
