Mill Creek Entertainment will issue a value-priced The Lady From Shanghai Blu-ray on March 17. The disc carries a suggested list price of $14.98. It is being offered for pre-order on Amazon.com for $8.99 and on DeepDiscount for $7.99. The upcoming Mill Creek release is half the list price of the TCM Vault issue from […]
To a casual observer, the first thing that stands out is the film is slightly darker now than on the initial Blu-ray.
Updated on June 4, 2014: TCM Shop has not only put out an improved version of The Lady from Shanghai on Blu-ray, there is also an exchange program for those who have already purchased the previous version. If interested, call the TCM Shop at (888) 982-6746 and tell them you want to exchange your copy. […]
The 4k remastered “The Lady From Shanghai” arrives as a Blu-ray/ DVD combo from TCM Vault on January 27. The video carries a $29.95 list price tag, but is available on the TCM website for $24.99. TCM Vault Collection titles are produced in small quantities for a limited time. According to the website, “In partnership […]
UPDATE (October 10, 2013): Grover Crisp, executive vice-president of film restoration at Sony, told Britain’s The Guardian that the studio is “planning to record out to a new negative for preservation purposes and a few prints. The film will also finally be released on Blu-ray shortly.” __________ “The Lady from Shanghai,” Orson Welles’ 1947 thriller […]
CHRIS WELLES FEDER: My father thought Chimes at Midnight was his masterpiece, and I think that, as well. Falstaff was a role that was really made for him and I think his playing of that part is probably his greatest moment on the screen as an actor. When Prince Hal says, “I know thee not […]
On September 7, 1943, the 28-year old Orson Welles secretly whisked Rita Hayworth, 25, away from the Columbia studio lot after the day’s shooting on the Columbia musical, Cover Girl. At Santa Monica City Hall, Orson Welles and Rita Hayworth were married in the presence of best man, Joseph Cotten. The marriage between Welles and […]
Chris Welles Feder’s wonderful new book about her life and times with Orson Welles, In My Father’s Shadow has just been released by Agonquin Books. Chris Welles began her book tour in San Francisco with a showing of The Lady From Shanghai at the Rafael Theatre on November 2, and earlier that day Alex Fraser […]
Wellesnet is co-sponsoring Chris Welles Feder’s first appearance for her intimate new book about Orson Welles, In My Father’s Shadow at the Rafael Theatre, in San Rafael on Monday November 2. Ms. Welles-Feder has long been a supporter of Wellesnet and we do return those duties back to her as are right fit… The book […]
When you have a great figure of myth like Don Quixote, like Falstaff, it is a silhouette against the sky of all time… —Orson Welles to Juan Cobos. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ A beautifully written and moving memoir which should have a most special place in the extraordinary world of Orson Welles. –Peter Bogdanovich ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Orson Welles’s eldest […]
UPDATED: No longer available. The Blake Snyder screenwriting messageboard has removed the link to the draft script. ________ A very early draft of Orson Welles screenplay for The Lady From Shanghai is now available online. Thanks to Wellesnet member Alan for posting the link at the Wellesnet messageboard so everyone can enjoy it, and to […]
The novel that became the basis for the Orson Welles movie, The Lady From Shanghai was written by Sherwood King in 1938. Welles claimed he saw it in a drug store in Boston in 1946, and that he called Harry Cohn before the opening of AROUND THE WORLD and asked Cohn to send him $40,000. […]