The Lady from Shanghai
"I told you... you know nothing about wickedness"
A romantic drifter gets caught between a corrupt tycoon and his voluptuous wife.
"I told you... you know nothing about wickedness"
A romantic drifter gets caught between a corrupt tycoon and his voluptuous wife.
Rita Hayworth
Elsa Bannister
ออร์สัน เวลส์
Michael O'Hara
Everett Sloane
Arthur Bannister
Glenn Anders
George Grisby
Ted de Corsia
Sidney Broome
Erskine Sanford
Judge
Gus Schilling
Goldfish
Carl Frank
Galloway
Louis Merrill
Jake Bjornsen
A romantic drifter gets caught between a corrupt tycoon and his voluptuous wife.
This is another film where the two top-billed - Rita Hayworth ("Elsa") and Orson Welles ("Michael") are outshone by a strong supporting effort. This time, that comes from Everett Sloane. Here, he is renowned barrister "Bannister" who needs crutches to walk and is married to the restless "Elsa". She was taking a cab through the park one night when accosted by robbers. "Michael" was passing and came to the rescue. Next thing "Bannister" is asking him to come work on their luxury yacht. Clearly, he is attracted to the wife and soon a rather complex game is afoot - but who is playing whom? Meantime, "Grisby" *Glenn Anders) - the partner of "Bannister" in their law firm tries to embroil "Michael" in a rather cunning wheeze to create a corpse-less crime enabling him to flee his overbearing wife and claim some insurance money. It isn't long before the corpses do start to pile up and "Michael" is front and centre in the courtroom defended by "Bannister" for murder. Who actually did the killing, though? The film is very much at it's best with a strong performance from Hayworth, Welles and Sloane all playing against each other. I found the parallel plot to all be just a bit far-fetched. The ending is cracking, though - and though perhaps I felt there was a little injustice in it, it works really well. The production looks great, Hayworth dons her sailor's cap with panache and though a bit lumbering, Welles gels quite well with her as we progress. Good film, this.
A crook on the run hides out in an innocent girl's apartment.
เดวีย์ กอร์ดอน นักมวยชาวนิวยอร์กที่กำลังจะหมดสัญญาอาชีพ ตกหลุมรักกลอเรีย ไพรซ์ นักเต้น แต่ความสัมพันธ์ที่กำลังเบ่งบานของพวกเขากลับต้องสะดุดลงเมื่อวินเซนต์ ราปัลโล เจ้านายจอมรุนแรงของกลอเรีย ผู้มีสายตาจับจ้องกลอเรีย ทั้งสองตัดสินใจหนีออกจากเมือง แต่ก่อนที่พวกเขาจะทำได้ วินเซนต์และพวกอันธพาลก็ลักพาตัวกลอเรียไป และเดวีย์ถูกบังคับให้ออกตามหาเธอในมุมที่เสื่อมโทรมที่สุดของเมือง โดยมีศัตรูซ่อนตัวอยู่ในเงามืด
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Petty crook and cop-killer Martin Rome, in bad shape from wounds in the hospital prison ward, still refuses to help slimy lawyer Niles clear his client by confessing to another crime. Police Lt. Candella must check Niles' allegation; a friend of the Rome family, he walks a tightrope between sentiment and cynicism. When Martin fears Candella will implicate his girlfriend Teena, he'll do anything to protect her. How many others will he drag down to disaster with him?
A police detective's violent nature keeps him from being a good cop.
Police Lt. Leonard Diamond vies to bring a clever, well connected, and sadistic gangster to justice all the while obsessing over the gangster's girlfriend.
Upon waking up to the news that the man she’d gone on a date with the previous night has been murdered, a young woman with only a faint memory of the night’s events begins to suspect that she murdered him while attempting to resist his advances.
A veteran homicide detective who has witnessed his socialite girlfriend kill her husband sees his inexperienced brother assigned to the case.
Cleve Marshall, an assistant district attorney, falls for Thelma Jordon, a mysterious woman with a troubled past. When Thelma becomes a suspect in her aunt's murder, Cleve tries to clear her name.
Johnny Kovak joins the Teamsters trade-union in a local chapter in the 1930s and works his way up in the organization. As he climbs higher and higher his methods become more ruthless and finally senator Madison starts a campaign to find the truth about the alleged connections with the Mob.