Film 50: History of Cinema
The Lady from Shanghai
Orson Welles (US, 1948)
- When
- Wed Feb 11, 2015
- Where
- PFA Theater
- Time
- 3:10pm
- Cost
- $5.50 - $11.50
- Tags
- Movies, Film Screenings
Description
*Special Admission Applies*Lecture/Emily Carpenter
Welles turned a mediocre novel into a brilliant film by overturning all the expectations of the crime thriller. Although the film remains an absorbing intrigue—the story of a murder plan that unfolds as a yacht makes its luxurious way along the Pacific—every scene is a showcase for Welles’s cinematic inventiveness, and the whole adds up to a significant statement on the evils of money lust. Welles pulled off a coup by casting himself as a totally sympathetic character, an Irish sailor with humanitarian politics who becomes a pawn in the game of the greedy rich.
• Written by Welles, based on the novel Before I Die by Sherwood King. Photographed by Charles Lawton, Jr. With Rita Hayworth, Orson Welles, Everett Sloane, Glenn Anders. (87 mins, B&W, 35mm, From Sony Pictures Repertory)
More Info
- Link
- http://bampfa.berkeley.edu/film/FN21960
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- (510) 642-1412
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- 510.642.5249 (Box Office)
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