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The Lady from Shanghai (1947)

Name: The Lady from Shanghai
Director: Orson Welles
Genre: drama film, film noir
Duration: 87 min
Rating: 7.5

The Lady from Shanghai is a 1947 American film noir produced and directed by Orson Welles and starring Rita Hayworth, Welles, Everett Sloane, and Glenn Anders. Welles's screenplay is based on the novel If I Die Before I Wake by Sherwood King.

Directed by Orson Welles · Shot by Joseph Walker, Charles Lawton Jr. · Cut by Viola Lawrence · Music by Heinz Eric Roemheld, Morris Stoloff · 87 min

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Behind the scenes

Behind the Scenes: The Lady from Shanghai (Welles, 1947) with Rita Hayworth and Orson Welles — Serious Feather · 18 min

Elsewhere

More by Orson Welles

The Orson Welles Show
Orson Welles' Magic Show
Twelfth Night — 1933
The Hearts of Age — 1934
Too Much Johnson — 1938
Citizen Kane trailer — 1940
Citizen Kane — 1941
The Magnificent Ambersons — 1942
Journey into Fear — 1943
The Stranger — 1946
Macbeth — 1948
Black Magic — 1950
The Miracle of St. Anne — 1950
Othello — 1951
Magic Trick — 1953
Mr. Arkadin — 1955
Madrid Bullfight — 1955
Around the World with Orson Welles — 1955
Three Cases of Murder — 1955
Moby Dick—Rehearsed — 1955
Orson Welles and People — 1956
Touch of Evil — 1958
Portrait of Gina — 1958
The Fountain of Youth — 1958
The Trial — 1962
In the Land of Don Quixote — 1964
Chimes at Midnight — 1965
The Immortal Story — 1968
Vienna — 1968
An Evening with Orson Welles — 1970

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