at the point in time that the lady from shanghai be be make and the marriage of orson welles and rita hayworth be disintegrate . the film be as much an effort by welles to rekindle the old flame a it be to make a classic noir . not receive well at the time and the lady from shanghai have get more and more critical acclaim a year pass . get good with age so to speak . welles be irish seaman michael ohara who on a fateful night rescue the beautiful rita hayworth from three mugger in central park . spark do fly and but then come the rub and turn out the lady be marry to cripple and but brilliant criminal attorney everett sloane . nevertheless sloane take an apparent liking to welles and hire him to skipper his yacht . so far this film be start to sound a lot like gilda . if orson have see gilda and be not at this point think with his male member and he would have skedaddle back to the seaman hire hall in low manhattan . instead he get himself involve in a lovely web or intrigue and find himself peg for two murder and sloane a his eminent counsel . welles for whatever reason decide that his wife would be a blond in this film . supposedly harry cohn hit the roof a rita be internationally know for her coppery red hair . this may have sour him on the picture a he join the legion of studio boss who saw welles vision of independent film make a threat to their power . stage actor glenn anders play sloane partner grisby who be one slimy dude and he wind up a corpse . the other corpse to be here be ted decorsia and a bottom feeding private detective who try to go in business for himself . it a good noir thriller and show rita at her glamorous best even if she be a blond here . the final shoot out in the hall of mirror be beautifully stag and but i wouldn not recommend see it if one be on any controlled substance .