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Podcast: The Projection Booth Podcast
Episode: Episode 547: The Lady from Shanghai (1947)
Description: Noirvember 2021 continues with a look at Orson Welles’s The Lady from Shanghai. It’s the story of Michael O’Hara (Orson Welles), a sailor who falls in with a weird group of people: A gorgeous blonde, Elsa (Rita Hayworth), the titular lady from Shanghai, her husband, Arthur Bannister, a high-powered lawyer, and his partner, Grisby, a…well, he’s kind of a weirdo who wants to fake his own death and pin it on Michael.Spencer Parsons and Peter Flynn join Mike to discuss this highly-compromised film.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices