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The Lady From Shanghai - Blu-ray

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The Story Of A Reckless Woman! Baffling murders, fascinating plot twists and remarkable camera work all contribute to this spellbinding, time-honored film noir written, directed by and starring Orson Welles. Hired to work on a yacht belonging to the disabled 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 shocked 1948 audiences by presenting Hayworth with her flaming red hair cut short and dyed champagne blonde. Fifty years later, The Lady From Shanghai is considered vintage Welles, his famous hall of mirrors climax hailed as one of the greatest scenes in cinematic history. Based on the novel If I Die Before I Wake Technical Aspects:1080p High-Definition Video from a 4k Digital RestorationPresented in Original Aspect Ratio of 1.37:1DTS-HD Master Audio 2.0Subtitles: EnglishBlack and White / 88 minutesNew Artwork with Double-Sided Packaging


Is Discontinued By Manufacturer ‏ : ‎ No


MPAA rating ‏ : ‎ NR (Not Rated)


Product Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6.5 x 5.25 x 0.3 inches; 0.71 Ounces


Item model number ‏ : ‎ MLCR63224BR


Director ‏ : ‎ Orson Welles


Media Format ‏ : ‎ Blu-ray, Multiple Formats, Full Screen, NTSC


Run time ‏ : ‎ 1 hour and 28 minutes


Release date ‏ : ‎ March 17, 2015


Actors ‏ : ‎ Rita Hayworth, Orson Welles, Everett Sloane, Glenn Anders, Ted de Corsia


Subtitles: ‏ ‎ English


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    • Classic Film Noir of a man who can't say no to a woman who means nothing but trouble
Lady From Shanghai is a classic Film Noir made by Orson Wells who co-wrote, produced, directed and starred in the movie. He plays Michael O’Hara who falls for a woman named Elsa (Rita Hayworth) who he rescues from a mugging in New York’s Central Park. She offers him a job on a boat trip to San Francisco which he accepts. She says she’ll make it worth his while but it turns out she’s married to a crippled lawyer Arthur Bannister (Everett Sloane). She is the definition of a Femme Fatale and will be nothing but trouble for O’Hara. Right from the start O’Hara knows he shouldn’t get involved with Elsa but he does anyway. For instance after saving her in the park he notes that she had a gun in her purse but threw it away. She claims she didn’t know how to shoot it. He replies “It’s easy you just pull the trigger.” That’s some of the quick, fast and witty dialogue the best Noir’s were known for. When he finds out she has a husband he notes he didn’t like married women and if she would fool her spouse she would definitely fool him. Then Mr. Bannister comes to recruit him for the trip and O’Hara promises he won’t accept but does anyway. He says that Mr. Bannister was like a “sleeping rattlesnake.” Here again O’Hara sees the warning signs about taking up Elsa on her offer and yet he can’t turn her down especially when she pleads with him in a sexy little sailor outfit. This is another Noir trope, the male main character feeling helpless against the odds. So what if it is of his own making in this case. The fact that he feels trapped by Elsa’s beauty is all part of the thrill of this genre. You can also tell where the story is going but you play along just to see how it will work out and what dark fate awaits O’Hara and Elsa. The climax is one of the classics in cinema where O’Hara and Elsa confront each other in a hall of mirrors in San Francisco. It’s symbolic of the confused relationship between the two as well as them having to face themselves. Overall this is a great Noir. It has all the elements and Wells and Hayworth play their roles to a T. ... show more
Reviewed in the United States on October 31, 2020 by joel wing
    • "The Weirdest Great Movie Ever Made"
I struggled over giving this Mill Creek Blu-ray of a near-classic, 1948 movie a rating of '3' or '4.' Call it 3.5. This is an OTOH/BOTOH/BOTTH review: "on the one hand"/"but on the other hand"/"but on the third hand." OTOH, in the true tradition of film noir, the plot is twisted. BOTOH, some twists are so nutty that, on reflection, they don't make any sense. BOTTH, sheer logic doesn't necessarily produce captivating entertainment. Directors as different as Hitchcock and Tarantino have proved that. OTOH, the performances are amusingly arch. BOTOH, most of the actors are so fine—especially Rita Hayworth and Everett Sloane—that one suspects they were directed to pitch their style into an upper register, as befits pulp fiction. The director, by the way, was Orson Welles, whose own performance is comparatively underplayed. OTOH, the exterior shots on the shores of places like Acapulco and Sausalito are rich and lovely, whether in daylight or at night. (I didn't catch a day-for-night shot; probably there are some.) Screen ratio is 4:3, with vertical black bars on the sides. BOTOH, Welles's blocking and staging of some scenes seem surprisingly clunky. BOTTH, the movie's famous set-pieces inside an aquarium and a fun-house are magnificent beyond description. I don't know whether Welles was bored with other scenes or whether he executed some brilliantly, only to have them hacked up by Harry Cohn, head of Columbia Pictures. Like "The Magnificent Ambersons" but less obviously so, "The Lady From Shanghai" suffered severe studio cuts over which Welles had no control. Cohn also mandated some close-ups that aggravated Welles and may irritate you, too. OTOH, Mill Creek Entertainment has done a fine job of remastering this print in 1080HD. It's as clean as any I've ever seen of this movie. That's important: the noir is really noirish. BOTOH, this disc is bare-bones with no frills: no extras, not even scene selections. The title card offers you only two options: "Play Feature" and "Subtitles" (in English only). BOTTH: At this writing this Blu-ray is now priced at under eight bucks. You get what you pay for. Until Criterion picks up the license and jazzes things up, as this film arguably deserves, I'll be satisfied with what Mill Creek provides. If you are a Welles aficionado, you'll want to snatch this while available and affordable. If not, you may want to rent it, even though the image and audio may not be as sharp as the Mill Creek edition. In Welles's overall output, I'd pitch "The Lady From Shanghai" straight down the middle: not great, not bad, touched by genius. I'd say the same for the technical production afforded here by Mill Creek. ... show more
Reviewed in the United States on August 8, 2019 by C. C. Black
    • This is probably the longest 87-minute movie I’ve ever seen.
We really like film noir but much of this movie is pretty much nothing happening but if you’re into great camera work you might not notice it. It’s hard to believe an hour was cut from the original but when you see a scene like getting off a yacht, getting into boats, landing on a beach, getting out of boats, getting back into boats, going up a jungle river, landing on a beach and getting out of boats for a picnic it does start to make me drift There are some classic scenes but there are a lot more dull and pointless ones and this was likely cutting edge stuff in the 40’s but there’s just not enough cohesion to it to make it flow nicely and we get it he’s being worked by her so stop beating it to death. Even the Irish accent wears thin but it’s a movie that is less than the reviews. Most noir films with a runtime of around 90-minutes just never seemed to take so long. They don’t even let the viewer in on why someone wants some else killed or what that someone has on them that would make them stay around. There’s also no visible chemistry between the leads. We watched Brick earlier and Rian Johnson did a better job at a film noir in current times than Orson Welles did in the heyday of film noir. I would say Welles, like Tarantino at times, is preoccupied with filming a movie and less concerned that a viewer would find the plot interesting. Was Rita with a haircut and blonde a blonde didn’t add much in a B&W film and seemed to be there just to shock the audience of the day when long & dark would have made her much more sultry. ... show more
Reviewed in the United States on January 18, 2021 by Todd M.

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