Mill Creek Entertainment is bringing Orson Welles'
The Lady from Shanghai (1947) to Blu-ray. The crime noir is based on Sherwood King's 1938 novel, "If I Die Before I Wake," and stars Welles, Rita Hayworth and Everett Sloane.
The Lady from Shanghai arrives on March 17th, and is most likely identical to the
January 2014 TCM-exclusive BD.
Synopsis: Orson Welles directs, produces, writes and stars in this maritime film noir. When unemployed Irishman Michael O'Hara (Welles) saves Elsa Bannister (Rita Hayworth) from some thugs, she obtains him a position on her invalid lawyer husband Arthur's (Everett Sloane) yacht, as a deckhand. It soon becomes clear that Elsa now has designs on O'Hara, and also wants her husband out of the way. O'Hara, although resisting Elsa's advances, finds himself becoming embroiled in a web of intrigue and murder. The famous hall of mirrors sequence is considered to be one of the greatest scenes in film history.
Mill Creek has yet to detail tech specs or special features, or to confirm whether or not the MCE version is the same as the previously released TCM-exclusive edition.