Once again Excelsior Branch is participating in our system-wide SF Library Film Festival. The movie we will be showing on Wednesday, July 10, is The Lady from Shanghai (1947, 88 mins) with Orson Welles and Rita Hayworth.Michael O’Hara (Orson Welles), an Irish seaman falls for Elsa Bannister (Rita Hayworth), a seductive bombshell married to wealthy lawyer Arthur Bannister (Everett Sloane), Elsa and Arthur frame Michael for a murder Elsa committed. Orson Welles wrote, produced, directed, and starred in this film noir thriller with a bizarre twist. Welles’ final scene is a brilliantly photographed shoot-out in a hall of mirrors.
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Michael
O’Hara (Orson Welles), an Irish seaman falls for Elsa Bannister (Rita
Hayworth), a seductive bombshell married to wealthy lawyer Aurthur
Bannister (Everett Sloane), Elsa and Aurthur frame Michael for a murder
Elsa committed. Orson Welles wrote, produced, directed, and starred in
this film noir thriller with a bizarre twist. Welles’ final scene is a
brilliantly photographed shoot-out in a hall of mirrors. - See more at:
http://sfpl.org/index.php?pg=1013937801#sthash.mDvDJ4BD.dpuf
Michael
O’Hara (Orson Welles), an Irish seaman falls for Elsa Bannister (Rita
Hayworth), a seductive bombshell married to wealthy lawyer Aurthur
Bannister (Everett Sloane), Elsa and Aurthur frame Michael for a murder
Elsa committed. Orson Welles wrote, produced, directed, and starred in
this film noir thriller with a bizarre twist. Welles’ final scene is a
brilliantly photographed shoot-out in a hall of mirrors. - See more at:
http://sfpl.org/index.php?pg=1013937801#sthash.mDvDJ4BD.dpuf
Michael
O’Hara (Orson Welles), an Irish seaman falls for Elsa Bannister (Rita
Hayworth), a seductive bombshell married to wealthy lawyer Aurthur
Bannister (Everett Sloane), Elsa and Aurthur frame Michael for a murder
Elsa committed. Orson Welles wrote, produced, directed, and starred in
this film noir thriller with a bizarre twist. Welles’ final scene is a
brilliantly photographed shoot-out in a hall of mirrors. - See more at:
http://sfpl.org/index.php?pg=1013937801#sthash.mDvDJ4BD.dpuf
