Orson Welles' 1947 noir, led by Welles himself and his wife at the time, Rita Hayworth (Gilda). The pair become...
Orson Welles' 1947 noir, led by Welles himself and his wife at the time, Rita Hayworth (Gilda). The pair become caught in a web of obsession and a mysterious murder plot.
"In financial chaos, with his critical reputation ebbing, and his marriage to Rita Hayworth floundering, Orson Welles was grateful to accept Columbia boss Harry Cohn’s surprising offer to direct an adaptation of R. Sherwood King’s 1938 thriller If I Die Before I Wake, with Hayworth as co-star. In a noir thriller of labyrinthine entanglement, Welles portrays an Irish sailor who accompanies a beautiful woman and her husband on a sea cruise and becomes entwined in a murder plot, culminating in one of cinema’s famous finales: Hayworth’s frantic ice-blonde femme fatale surreally reflected in a hall of mirrors – read by some as a comment on the stars’ marriage." (London Film Festival)
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85 %53 reviewsRotten Tomatoes® rating
84 %8,822 reviewsAudience score rating
"Script is wordy and full of holes which need the plug of taut story telling and more forthright action."
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Variety
Variety"Be warned: This is a film that collects obsessives."
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Time Out
Time Out"For a fellow who has as much talent with a camera as Orson Welles and whose powers of pictorial invention are as fluid and as forcible as his, this gentleman certainly has a strange way of marring his films with sloppiness."
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The New York Times
The New York Times"Though the plot is impossible to follow, there are many glimpses of Welles' signature atmosphere-making."
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Empire Magazine
Empire MagazineThe Lady from Shanghai | Details
- Runtime
- 87
- Genre
- Drama, Thriller
- Country of origin
- USA
