In Lady from Shanghai, Shanghai is mentioned, never explained, and the stand-in Chinatown only surfaces at the end.) But there’s more because Welles adds a kind of gothic grotesquerie to it all.

"The Lady from Shanghai" is okay boxoffice. It's exploitable and has Rita Hayworth's name for the marquees. Entertainment value suffered from the striving for effect that features Orson Welles ...

It’s always a delight when classic movies receive a 4K release. Sony’s The Lady from Shanghai 4K release brings Orson Welles‘ 1947 film noir to UHD for the first time. While it isn’t the ...

And Tuesday, Columbia TriStar Home Video is releasing Welles’ 1948 “The Lady From Shanghai” on DVD ($25). Bogdanovich, who wrote the book “This Is Orson Welles,” supplies the audio ...

Shot in 1946 but held for release until 1947, "The Lady from Shanghai" was a cinematic disaster for Orson Welles. Recut by the studio and drubbed at the box office, it was yet another of the ...

The Lady From Shanghai; Each Friday, we recommend seven Old Movies to Watch Now, all of which come recommended by one of our critics and can currently be screened online.Read the review, watch the ...

It took decades to get there, but co-writer/director Orson Welles' 1947 The Lady From Shanghai has gradually attained the status of a film noir classic. Like another lost masterpiece from Welles ...

When Orson Welles directed, wrote, and starred in “The Lady from Shanghai” (which I discuss in the clip above), he was thirty-two years old, and the character he played, Michael O’Hara, an ...

The alliance resulted in 1948's The Lady From Shanghai, a clearly troubled production with moments of brilliance that rank among Welles' best. An early example of film noir, ...