About this title: The Lady From Shanghai, a complex, involving puzzle-within-a-puzzle mystery story, is a showcase for Orson Welles, showing his singular talents and sensibilities as few other films have. The story is superficially simple: a seaman Michael O'Hara (Welles) is hired as a crew member on the yacht of the wealthy Banister (Everett Sloane). His beautiful but mysterious wife Elsa (Rita Hayworth) has met O'Hara earlier, when he saved her from a mugging. What ensues is a complicated and bizarre pattern of deception, fraud and murder, with O'Hara finding himself implicated in a murder, despite his ...
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Format: DVD
Studio: Sony Pictures
Date: 2000-10-03
UPC:043396048591
Description: New. Factory Sealed, Ships via First Class Mail--Baffling murders, fascinating plot twists and remarkable camera work all contribute to this spellbinding, time honored film noir written and directed by and starring Orson Welles. Hired to work on a yacht belonging to the disable husband of femme fatale Rita Hayworth, Welles plays an innocent man drawn into a dangerous web of intrigue and murder. The subject of great controversy and scandal upon its initial release, The Lady from Shanghai ... read more
Format: DVD
Studio: Sony Pictures
UPC:043396048591
Description: New. 043396048591 Brand new and factory sealed! We sell no bootlegs or imports. Buy with confidence! You WILL receive your item QUICKLY! read more
Format: DVD
Screen format: Full Screen
DVD region: 1
Date: 05/27/2008
UPC:043396048591
Description: New in new packaging. USA Orders only! Brand New product! please allow delivery times of 3-7 business days within the USA; Attention UK customers, please use our UK account ImportCDsUK, thank you. read more
Format: DVD
Screen format: Full Screen
DVD region: 1
Studio: Sony Pictures
Date: 10/03/2000
UPC:043396048591
Description: Glenn Anders, Steve Benton, Vernon Cansino, Al Eben, Edythe Elliott. New. 1948 Run time: 87. Buy with confidence-Satisfaction Guaranteed! read more
Format: DVD
Screen format: Full Screen
UPC:043396048591
Description: Rita Hayworth, Orson Welles, Everett Sloane, Glenn Anders, Ted de Corsia, Erskine Sanford, Gus Schilling. Very good in good packaging. 1948 Run time: 87. /aka/ Black Irish /aka/ Take This Woman. read more
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