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Directed by | Orson Welles |
Screenplay by | Orson Welles Uncredited: William Castle Charles Lederer Fletcher Markle |
Based on | If I Die Before I Wake 1938 novel by Raymond Sherwood King |
Produced by | Orson Welles |
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Edited by | Viola Lawrence |
Music by | Heinz Roemheld |
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Distributed by | Columbia Pictures |
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Running time | 88 minutes |
Country | United States |
Language | English |
Box office | 1,564,609 admissions (France)[1] |
The Lady from Shanghai is a 1947 American film noir produced and directed by Orson Welles and starring Rita Hayworth, Welles, Everett Sloane, and Glenn Anders.[2] Welles's screenplay is based on the novel If I Die Before I Wake by Sherwood King.[3]
Although the Columbia Pictures film initially received mixed reviews, it has grown in stature over the years. In 2018, the film was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant."[4][5]