The Lady from Shanghai

...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 an enigmatic performance from his then-wife Rita Hayworth. Also today (at 4.30pm) the...

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...look menacing, large, and in-charge. The Lady From Shanghai (directed by Orson Welles): examples of low-angle shot are during the scene where George Grisby is confronted by Broome and he shoots him. Used while filming World Wrestling...

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...in the window. He's looking at you, kid. Down memory lane It says something about Orson Welles' karma that almost everywhere he shot "The Lady From Shanghai" in 1947 is gone. Among the missing to pop up in his twisted film noir: the old...

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...collaborator Wai Ka-fai. They are noted for violence, but "Mad Detective" keeps the bloodshed minimal until a sequence inspired by the hall of mirrors in Orson Welles' "The Lady From Shanghai" (1948). "Mad Detective" doesn't always...

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...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, Chimes at Midnight. I ask what his future plans are. "Nothing," he...

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...others being Judy Garland, Cyd Charisse, Vera-Ellen, and Leslie Caron. Hayworth gave one of her most-acclaimed performances in Welles's The Lady from Shanghai (1948). Its failure at the box office was attributed in part to director/co-star...

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...Fallon. And Irish Central lists their votes for the 10 worst Irish accents on film. How could they leave out Orson Welles in The Lady From Shanghai? You know, I've met Fallon on multiple occasions; I've gotten drunk with Fallon on...

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...on to direct his first film 6 years later. He also worked an as assistant to director Orson Welles, doing much of the second unit location work for Welles' noir classic, The Lady from Shanghai. Castle was famous for directing films with...

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...On Dangerous Ground (1952). Orson Welles had notorious problems with financing, but his three film noirs were reasonably well budgeted: The Lady from Shanghai (1947) received top-level, "prestige" backing, while both The Stranger-his most...

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