The Lady from Shanghai
(1947)
Directed by Orson
Wells this film based on the novel “If I Die Before I Wake” stars
it's director, Rita Hayworth and Everett Sloane. An Irish sailor is
attracted to the wife of a rich lawyer after a chance meeting one
night and ends up working on the yacht owned by her husband.
Unfortunately thanks
to re-shoots and re-editing we will never get to see this film as
Wells intended. What we get is a pretty standard noir film with
plenty of potential that never really delivers or convinces. The
climax of the film could have been great but was sadly cut to
ribbons, I really hope there is a director's cut out there waiting to
be salvaged at some point.
3/5
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