New Restoration of Orson Welles’s 1947 Lady From Shanghai

An apparently excellent restored print of the Orson Welles movie Lady From Shanghai was shown recently as part of the London Film Festival. Ever since it’s release people have scratched their heads as to why Shanghai? The place is never mentioned in the movie. Well, I blogged about that a few years ago about this – The Lady From Shanghai…Who Wasn’t…But Was… – and the mentions of Chefoo and Macao in the movie that may ring a little hollow on modern ears. There’s also an interesting article on the back story of the film and the odd time that was had by all filming it from The Guardian.