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 ...more
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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 ...more
- Rita Hayworth - Elsa "Rosalie" Bannister
- Orson Welles - Michael O'Hara
- Everett Sloane - Arthur Bannister
- Ted de Corsia - Sidney Broome
- Glenn Anders - George Grisby
- Gus Schilling - Goldie
- Jessie Arnold - Schoolteacher
- Jack Baxley - Guard
- Steve Benton - Policeman
- Edythe Elliott - Old Lady
- Al Eben - Policeman
- Maynard Holmes - Truck Driver
- Edward Peil Sr. - Guard
- Mary Newton - Reporter
- Orson Welles - Director
- Harry Cohn - Producer
- Orson Welles - Producer
- Orson Welles - Screenwriter
- Sherwood King - Book Author
- Stephen Goosson - Art Director
- Sturges Carne - Art Director
- William Castle - Associate Producer
- Richard Wilson - Associate Producer
- Jean Louis - Costume Designer
- Sam Nelson - First Assistant Director
- Viola Lawrence - Editor
- Heinz Roemheld - Composer (Music Score)
- Morris W. Stoloff - Musical Direction/Supervision
















