Talk:The Lady from Shanghai

Hall of Mirrors
Was this the first movie with the hall of mirrors shootout? --Kevin Saff 22:27, 8 August 2005 (UTC)

Nope. Fear in the Night (1947 movie) and its remake Nightmare (1956 movie) has a room of mirrors scene in both that's similar to Lady's. I'm still trying to figure out if there was one earlier.

I stand corrected... Lady was the same year as Fear...

Sherwood King
Who is he? Why there is no information nowhere in the net about him ? --Wikipedino 16:23, 9 October 2006 (UTC)

Length
IMDb states that it was originally 155 minutes. Does anyone know if this is true and, if so, does the extra footage still exist or was it lost? gren グレン 09:09, 13 July 2007 (UTC)

Yes, as Peter Bogdanovich states in his commentary track on the DVD, Welles' preview version of the film ran 155 minutes. This included a much longer and more elaborate sequence in the fun house. To my knowledge, the cut footage has been lost. Stebbinwolf (talk) 04:50, 23 September 2008 (UTC)

1947 Release date
IMDB has a 1947 release date for this movie, not 1948. Tstrobaugh (talk) 21:36, 23 November 2008 (UTC)

Black Dahlia Connection
The film was purported to have links to the Black Dahlia murder at the time as the scenes cut from the film made significant references to the murder, months before it happened.[2]

Though a citation is provided, it doesn't seem to suggest that a contemporary connection was presumed between the movie and the murder -- it merely shows elements from the Funhouse set that supposedly look similar to injuries on Elizabeth Short's body. It seems like it should at least be moved to some other section of the article, if not removed altogether.--68.35.11.25 (talk) 10:03, 14 April 2009 (UTC)

Plot
The plot of this movie is famously confusing, but I altered the following:

''Michael reveals to Bannister that he knows who the real killer was. Without Elsa's knowledge, Michael is able to escape from the courtroom by feigning a suicide attempt before the verdict is to be announced.''

The real significance of the scene was not Michael's thinking he knows the killer, but Bannister (as it was Bannister's own wife Elsa, it is later revealed.) Also Elsa seemed to be the one who put into Michael's head the idea to feign the suicide effort, so it might not be accurate to say "without Elsa's knowledge."--67.164.139.172 (talk) 07:36, 13 January 2010 (UTC)

Question
One of the captions currently reads "Orson Welles and Rita Hayworth shortly before her lush auburn hair was bleached and cut for The Lady from Shanghai (1946)".

Hold on, in spite of the non-hispanic name, wasn't Ms Hayworth hispanic? Wasn't her trademark red hair already from a hair dye bottle?

The caption implies red was her natural hair color. Geo Swan (talk) 18:42, 24 September 2018 (UTC)


 * The caption is wrong. She dyed her hair red. Earnulf Gery (talk) 14:14, 4 February 2023 (UTC)