The Lady from Shanghai
I told you... you know nothing about wickedness
Country
Production
Budget
$2 300 000
Box office
$1 564 609
Director
Actors
Rita Hayworth, Orson Welles, Everett Sloane, Glenn Anders, Ted de Corsia, Erskine Sanford, Gus Schilling, Carl Frank, Lou Merrill, Evelyn Ellis
All actors and roles (10)
All actors and roles (10)
Scenario
Producer
Orson Welles, Virginia Van Upp, Harry Cohn
Camera operator
Charles Lawton Jr.
Composer
Artist
Audition
Editing
Short description
A romantic drifter gets caught between a corrupt tycoon and his voluptuous wife.
What's left behind the scenes
- The film is based on a novel by Sherwood King.
- The leading roles were played by Welles himself and his wife, Rita Hayworth, who specifically went against her image for the film, allowing herself to be transformed into a short-haired platinum blonde.
- Due to re-editing, the film was released in the American distribution only in June 1948 and was not successful.
- Accounts differ regarding the circumstances that prompted Welles to make the film. Welles himself said that he became the director of this film almost by accident. He urgently needed money to complete work on the musical “Around the World in 80 Days,” and in exchange for the required amount, he agreed to film for Columbia Pictures, for free, any plot they chose. The result did not please the Hollywood moguls, and they insisted on cutting over an hour of screen time from the film. However, even in this form, the picture flopped at the box office.
- After the failure of "The Lady from Shanghai," the director was placed on the "blacklist" of Hollywood. The film's failure also hastened his divorce from Hayworth.
- It took twenty years for the film to be recognized as one of the pinnacles of film noir, and the surreal shootout in a room full of mirrors was called "one of the most spectacular scenes in world cinema."
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