Film

The Lady from Shanghai

Piazza Grande

USA · 1947 · DCP 4K · Black and White · 87' · o.v. English

Part of the 2024 Retrospective The Lady with the Torch – The Centenary of Columbia Pictures | 4K restoration created from 4K scan of original negative; restored audio from 35mm nitrate original soundtrack negative. Restoration completed by MTI

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Comic, sinister, and baroque, this is the closest Orson Welles ever came to making a studio “A” picture. Co-starring his ex-wife Rita Hayworth, this bizarre and paranoid transcontinental thriller sees an Irish sailor waging his wits against rich and corrupt schemers.

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Director

Orson Welles

Screenplay

Orson Welles

Based on

the novel If I Die Before I Wake by Sherwood King.

Cast

Rita Hayworth, Orson Welles, Everett Sloane, Glenn Anderson, Ted De Corsia

Producer

Orson Welles

Cinematography

Charles Lawton Jr.

Editing

Viola Lawrence

Music

Heinz Roemheld

Production

Columbia Pictures
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International sales

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Print

Sony Pictures Entertainment
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