Oct 19th
The Lady from Shanghai**                          
(BFI South Bank - London Film Festival)

US 1947 (released 1948). Columbia. 87m. bw

An Irish sailor is framed for murder by a sinister lawyer and his mysterious wife.
Lively studio thriller made in comparatively routine manner by Welles as a favour to Harry Cohn, with room for some eccentricities including the striking Hall of Mirrors finale.

Written and Directed by: Orson Welles, based on the novel "If I Die Before I Wake" by Sherwood King.
Producers: Orson Welles, William Castle, Charles Lederer, Fletcher Markle.
Starring: Orson Welles, Rita Hayworth, Everett Sloane, Glenn Anders, Ted De Corsia, Erskine Sanford, Carl Frank.
Photography: Charles Lawton Jnr, Rudolph Mate, Joseph Walker.
Music: Heinz Roemheld.

+ the screening at the LFF was the world premiere of the latest 4K digital restoration

++ partly filmed on Errol Flynn's yacht the Zaca, with Flynn himself allegedly in one of the nightclub scenes