The Lady from Shanghai

...Bar is currently running a season of Orson Welles films. Today, at 2pm, his 1944 thriller The Lady from Shanghai, will be shown. A stylish film noir, the film is marred only by Welles' dodgy Irish accent (he plays an ex-IRA man) but graced by...

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...frame him for the crime, but that Broome's involvement ruined the scheme and obliged Elsa to kill Grisby for her own protection. The film features a surreal climactic shootout in a hall of mirrors, the Magic Mirror Maze, in which Elsa is...

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...Bacall in The Big Sleep; Robert Mitchum in Out of the Past; Burt Lancaster in The Killers; and the great Robert Ryan in On Dangerous Ground. Then BBC4 screened Murder My Sweet, The Lady from Shanghai and The Big Combo, for which much thanks.

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Directed by Richard Wallace, written by Ben Maddow ("The Asphalt Jungle"). Screening at 5:20 and 9:40 tonight; also 7:30 p.m. Tuesday. "The Lady From Shanghai" (1948): Director Orson Welles takes the classic femme-fatale tale to...

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...Kane on television as he was waiting for me to arrive. "I have seen it before. But it is not his best film. " He turns out to love The Lady from Shanghai, although he has, surprisingly, not heard of my own favourite Orson Welles work,...

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...about a Northern California real estate dispute has so much fog that audiences start wondering why anybody would want to live here. The Lady From Shanghai (1948): Orson Welles shot half of this film on location, and most of the exteriors are...

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6), a series presenting double bills pairing film noir classics with rarer examples of the genre. First up on July 31 are "The Lady from Shanghai" and "Framed." Admission is $12; series pass, $40. For a complete schedules, go to www....

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...artful scene - particularly in high-contrast black-and-white - and wouldn't have felt out of place in "The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari," or "The Lady From Shanghai." RIALTO)Richard Attenborough with Carol Marsh in "Brighton Rock" There are...

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NEW YORK, Nov. 26 Australian actress Nicole Kidman will not star in a planned remake of Orson Welles' 1948 thriller, "The Lady from Shanghai." Asked about reports she is considering a role in Wong Kar Wai's remake, Kidman told reporters...

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Rita Hayworth in The Lady from Shanghai movie poster Fair use in The Lady from Shanghai Though this image is subject to copyright, its use is covered by the U.S. fair use laws because: It's a low resolution copy of a Film Poster / VHS...

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