starring
Orson Welles , Rita Hayworth with Everett Sloane
Although Citizen Kane and The Magnificent Ambersons received phenomenal critical acclaim, Welles found it difficult to get directorial assignments, and only after Rita Hayworth , his wife at the time, had agreed to play a leading role, was he given full creative control over The Lady from Shanghai. The result is a bravura thriller with one of the most exciting endings in cinema history-a bizarre gun battle in a hall of mirrors.
Screenplay by ORSON WELLES . based on the novel if I Die Before I Wake by SHERWOOD KING
Produced and directed by ORSON WELLES . Films: page IS (Macbeth is tomorrow at 11.10 pm)