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Date
July 21, 2015 2:00PM
Name
The Lady From Shanghai
Description
Prices: $10 Orchestra & Balcony / $20 Loge
The Granada Theatre Presents
Crime Fiction in the Movies
THE LADY FROM SHANGHAI (1947)
Director: Orson Welles
Writers: Orson Welles, based on the novel "If I Die Before I Wake" by Sherwood King
Starring: Rita Hayworth, Orson Welles, Everett Sloane
Music by: Heinz Roemheld
Genre: Film Noir
Length: 87min
Michael O'Hara, against his better judgment, hires on as a crewmember of Arthur Bannister's yacht, sailing to San Francisco. They pick up Grisby, Bannister's law partner, en route. Bannister has a wife, Rosalie, who seems to like Michael much better than she likes her husband. After they dock in Sausalito, Michael goes along with Grisby's weird plan to fake his (Grisby's) murder so he can disappear untailed. He wants the $5000 Grisby has offered, so he can run off with Rosalie. But Grisby turns up actually murdered, and Michael gets blamed for it. Somebody set him up, but it is not clear who or how. Bannister (the actual murderer?) defends Michael in court.
Full of fun, grizzly, drama, this film is one that helped define the film noir genre.
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