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...main plot: Orson, a "philosophical" merchant seaman who finds it "very sanitary to be broke," signs for a long yacht cruise because Rita Hayworth, who much prefers to be filthy rich, will be aboard. For love of her, he also signs a phony confession to a supposedly phony murder. When the murder turns out to be real, Orson finds himself caught in a frame and the toils of the law. He escapes, literally, through an optical illusion: the real villains of the piece mow each other down in an amusement park's House of Mirrors...
Catholic Club--Anita Palmer '49, president; Ruth Kennedy '50, vice president; Jean O'Brien '51, treasurer; Rita McSweeney '49, dormitory representative...
Other 'Cliffedwellers appointed to yearbook posts were as follows: managing editor, Rita Guggenheim; literary editor, Anne Tolstoi; business manager, Ann Devney; circulation manager, suzanne Watson. All are in the Class...
...movie has any similarity to a Bugs Bunny flick. As a naive Irish seaman, Welles becomes involved with as sinister a party of rich people as ever paced the deek of a pleasure yacht. Working for them on a trip to the Tropics, he falls in love with Rita Hayworth, the wife of "the most successful criminal lawyer in the country." In order to make enough money to take her away with him, he gets mixed up in a setup murder that is as bewildering to the audience as it is to Welles...
...climax of the movie comes with what is perhaps the best trial scene ever done in the movies, and with an escape that takes the hero to a Chinese play and a deserted amusement park crazy house There, in the hall of mirrors, Rita and her hubby shoot it out, shattering a lot of glass before touching each other. Certainly, for imagination and advantageous use of the camera, "The Lady from Shanghai" is unsurpassable...