Plot Summary

On an empty night alley new York's Central Park, Michael O'hara throw right and left of the bandits who attacked Rosalie Bannister. A giant with the face of a child, an unemployed sailor, he draws her to his primitive power, and she offers Michael a job on the yacht of her husband, a successful lawyer, crippled poliomielita crippled. Smitten a fatal blonde, O'hara sail. In a way Grizbi, a business partner of Bannister, turns to Michael with a rather cryptic offer to help fake his murder in order that he could disappear and get a huge insurance. Grizbi promises to pay $5000, with money like Michael and Rosalie will be able to escape and start a new life. Michael agrees... and almost signed his own death warrant.

Did You Know?

The film is based on the novel by Sherwood king.

Starring Sam wells and his wife Rita Hayworth, which is specifically for the film went contrary to their image, allowing you to turn yourself into a short-haired platinum blonde.

Due to the rewiring, the film was released in us theaters in June of 1948 and had no success.

About the circumstances that have pushed Welles for the film, reports vary. He told wells that he was a Director of this film almost by accident. He urgently needed the money to complete work on the musical "Around the world in 80 days", and in exchange for the required amount, he agreed to shoot for Columbia Pictures film on any chosen plot. The result is not like the Hollywood bigwigs, and they wanted to cut from the movie for more than an hour of screen time. However the picture failed at the box office.

After the failure of "the Lady from Shanghai" the Director was in the "black list" of Hollywood. Also the failure of the film hastened his divorce from Hayworth.

Twenty years before the film was named one of the peaks of the Hollywood film Noir, and the surreal shooting in full mirror room of laughter — "one of the most spectacular scenes in cinema".

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