Michael O'Hara, against his better judgement, hires on as a crew member of Arthur Bannister's yacht, sailing to San Francisco. They pick up Grisby, Bannister's law partner, en route. Bannister has a wife, Elsa, 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 Elsa. B... (Full plot summary below)
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Michael O'Hara, against his better judgement, hires on as a crew member of Arthur Bannister's yacht, sailing to San Francisco. They pick up Grisby, Bannister's law partner, en route. Bannister has a wife, Elsa, 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 Elsa. 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.
Leave your thoughts about The Lady from Shanghai.
| Combustible CelluloidJeffrey M. AndersonA brilliant movie, and everything in it is terrific. |
| Electric SheepEithne FarryThe storyline is almost incidental to the disorientating inventiveness of The Lady from Shanghai. |
| Time OutTom HuddlestonA magnificent mess of switchbacks and revelations, climaxing with one of cinema's most outrageously inventive sequences. |
| Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC)Ken HankeWhile there are better films in Orson Welles' oeuvre, I'm not sure any are more mesmerizing -- and I'm pretty sure that no film seems so emblematic of his career. |
| Parallax ViewRichard T. Jameson... looms as the pivotal work of Welles's career, one of the greatest glories of the American cinema, and undoubtedly the trashiest masterpiece in motion picture history. |
| Boulder WeeklyThomas DelapaLike most of Welles' Hollywood efforts, Shanghai was shanghaied by studio tampering ... but it also contains some of his greatest set pieces, topped by the delirious shootout in the funhouse hall of mirrors. |
| Village VoiceCalum MarshFor all the violations it suffered, The Lady From Shanghai seems strangely coherent in its extant form -- or rather, coherently incoherent, and in a way that seems quite deliberate. |
| Empire MagazineColin KennedyThough the plot is impossible to follow, there are many glimpses of Welles' signature atmosphere-making. |
| Time OutGeoff AndrewComplex, courageous, and utterly compelling. |
| Time OutJoshua RothkopfBe warned: This is a film that collects obsessives. |
