The Lady from Shanghai

THE LADY FROM SHANGHAI

USA, 1948

Director: Orson Welles

Production: Columbia Pictures Corp.; black and white, 35mm; running time: 86 minutes. Released 10 June 1948. Filmed for the most part in fall 1946, in Central Park and the Maritime Union Headquarters, New York; the Aquarium and the Chinese Mandarin Theatre, San Francisco; the Walhalla Bar and Cafe, Sausalito; various locations in Acapulco; and aboard the yacht "Zaca" owned by Errol Flynn.

Producers: Orson Welles with Richard Wilson and William Castle; screenplay: Orson Welles, from the novel Before I Die by Sherwood King; photography: Charles Lawton, Jr; editor: Viola Lawrence; sound: Lodge Cunningham; art director: Stephen Goosson and Sturges Carne; music: Heinz Roemheld; special mirror effects: Lawrence Butler; costume designer: Jean Louis.

Cast: Rita Hayworth ( Elsa Bannister ); Orson Welles ( Michael O'Hara ); Everett Sloane ( Arthur Bannister ); Glenn Anders ( George Grisby ); Ted de Corsia ( Sidney Broome ); Erskine Sanford ( Judge ); Gus Schilling ( Goldie ); Carl Frank ( District attorney ); Louis Merrill ( Jake ); Evelyn Ellis ( Bessie ); Harry Shannon ( Cab driver ); Wong Show Chong ( Li ); Sam Nelson ( Yacht captain ).

Publications

Books:

Bazin, André, Orson Welles , Paris, 1950; revised edition, Berkeley, 1979.

Noble, Peter, The Fabulous Orson Welles , London, 1956.

Bogdanovich, Peter, The Cinema of Orson Welles , New York, 1961.

Cowie, Peter, The Cinema of Orson Welles , London 1965.

Higham, Charles, The Films of Orson Welles , London, 1965.

Bessy, Maurice, Orson Welles , New York, 1971.

McBride, Joseph, Orson Welles , London, 1972; New York, 1977.

Naremore, J., The Magic World of Orson Welles , New York, 1978.

Silver, Alain, and Elizabeth Ward, editors, Film Noir , Woodstock, New York, 1979.

Valentinetti, Claudio M., Orson Welles , Florence, 1981.

Bergala, Alain, and Jean Narboni, editors, Orson Welles , Paris, 1982.

Andrew, Dudley, Film in the Aura of Art , Princeton, 1984.

Higham, Charles, Orson Welles: The Rise and Fall of an American Genius , New York, 1985.

Leaming, Barbara, Orson Welles: A Biography , New York, 1985.

Parra, Daniele, and Jacques Zimmer, Orson Welles , Paris, 1985.

Weis, Elisabeth, and John Belton, editors, Film Sound; Theory and Practice , New York, 1985.

Taylor, John Russell, Orson Welles, A Celebration , London, 1986.

Bazin, Andre, Orson Welles: A Critical View , Venice, 1991.

Welles, Orson, This Is Orson Welles , New York, 1993.

Beja, Morris, Perspective on Orson Welles , New York, 1995.

Kaplan, E. Ann, Women in Film Noir , London, 1998.

Taylor, John Russell, Orson Welles , New York, 1999.

Articles:

Pariante, Roberto "Orson Welles from Citizen Kane to Othello ," in Bianco e Nero (Rome), March 1956.

"L'Oeuvre d'Orson Welles," in Cahiers du Cinéma (Paris), September 1958.

Stanbrook, Alan, "The Heroes of Orson Welles," in Film (London), no. 28, 1962.

Cowie, Peter, "Orson Welles," in Films and Filming (London), April 1961.

"Welles Issue" of Image et Son (Paris), no. 139, 1961.

"Welles Issue" of Cineforum (Venice), no. 19, 1962.

"Welles Issue" of Etudes Cinématographiques (Paris), 1963.

Interview with Everett Sloane, in Film (London), no. 37, 1965.

Cobos, Juan, Miguel Rubio, and J. A. Pruneda, "A Trip to Don Quixoteland: Conversations with Orson Welles," in Cahiers du Cinema in English (New York), June 1966.

Henderson, Brian, "The Long Take," in Film Comment (New York), Summer 1971.

Goldfarb, Phyllis, "Orson Welles' Use of Sound," in Take One (Montreal), July-August 1971.

Graham, M., "The Inaccessibility of The Lady from Shanghai ," in Film Criticism (Edinboro, Pennsylvania), Spring 1981.

West, A., "A Textual Analysis of Lady from Shanghai ," in Enclitic (Minneapolis), Fall 1981-Spring 1982.

Goldschmidt, D., in Cinématographe (Paris), February 1982.

Houston, Beverle, "Power and Dis-Integration in the Films of Orson Welles," in Film Quarterly (Berkeley), Summer 1982.

Albano, L., in Filmcritica (Florence), February 1985.

The Lady from Shanghai

Moilanen, H., "Aani & vimma, tasta maailmasta," in Filmihullu (Helsinki), no. 7–8, 1988.

Nielsen, N. A., "Et allerhelvedes perspektiv," in Kosmorama (Copenhagen), Fall 1989.

Naremore, James, "Between Works and Texts: Notes from the Welles Archive," in Persistence of Vision (Maspeth), no. 7, May 1989.

Rampazzoni, Guido, "Cristallisation," in Vertigo (Paris), no. 6–7, 1991.

Short review, in Revue du Cinéma (Paris), no. 470, April 1991.