The Lady from Shanghai
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Movie Reviews of The Lady from Shanghai
Movie Review: An aborted classic with Rita as super star
Summary: 4 Stars
It feels like watching a preview of a great classic film noir. All the scenes are great, superb camera angles, beautiful vistas of natural sets, terrific lines all thru the movie. Everything is great; the cast, Rita is shockingly beautiful, as beautiful as Garbo was in "Queen Christina"... it's got everything, I tell you. But the problem is it's just a preview: only 90 minutes when the original thing was 2 and a half hours. You can see through its surface, how void the whole story is.
By the end one doesn't know who killed whom, why, or what was it all about. But Rita, Oh my! She was gorgeous. If only Welles (The Black Irish) didn't play the role of a fool, and she didn't play the unbelievable character she played it would have been different (or was it really different in its original idea? We will never know).
Movie Review: Smoke and Mirrors
Summary: 4 Stars
Had Orson Welles been making this movie up as he shot along it could hardly be more confusing. That may well have been what he did and the story doesn't make a lick of sense. Still, the bizarre characters, staging and editing have a mesmerizing quality to them that keeps "Lady" enjoyable if your tastes run to the unusual in movies. An Irish seaman is taken on as yacht skipper for a rich San Francisco lawyer, then set up for a murder rap. Welles pays a tribute to Rita Hayworth in his last lines, admitting that he was unlikely ever to get over her; she and Everett Sloane are particularly memorable.Movie Review: A signature Orson Welles movie
Summary: 4 Stars
Betrayed by the woman he loved
or just played for an all around fool by everybody;
the able bodied seaman played by Orson Welles
sets up several triple cross movies of the future.
The resulting plot is a no win psychological thriller
that delivers bad guy after bad guy until
the worm at the middle of the apple is revealed.
I liked it, but being used to this kind of plot
with Bogart movies of the 40's and early 50's,
the result wasn't as crushing this time around,
but this is a very good and well crafted movie.
Movie Review: Orson's at it again!
Summary: 4 Stars
This is probably not that well known compared to Orson Wells' masterpiece- Citizen Kane. This is worth checking out, however, if the viewer is interested observing the spectrum of this director's life or to see how modern cinematography came to be. If you truly enjoy the richness of movies from the 40's and 50's, you'll be very entertained by this one!Movie Review: Good film, great DVD
Summary: 4 Stars
This is a good movie ( not Welles' best ) The DVD picuture quality is excellent. Inspite of trimming of 60 minutes, the movie is easy to follow. The interview and audio commentary by Peter Bogdanovich are great! Don't miss this one if you are Welles' fan.