Husband-and-wife Orson Welles and Rita Hayworth teamed up for the classic noir The Lady from Shanghai, which featured the femme fatale as another "Gilda" knockoff. She's a seductress with a cruel, crippled husband (Everett Sloane in this one), and the innocent hero falls prey to her charms. She leads him down a dangerous path where crime and vice run rampant. If you liked Gilda, you should definitely check this one out. If you're like me and didn't, you probably won't like this one either.
The big scene that puts this noir on the map is the mirror scene. Even to this day, it's still incredible to watch, so you can give credit where credit is due (to Welles's directing) and watch the movie just for that scene. There's a great scene where a few of the characters are stuck in a house of mirrors, and as much as you struggle to find the camera showing in one of the reflections, you can't! Besides that, there's not much more to this movie than the average noir, except seeing Rita in strange-looking platinum hair.
The big scene that puts this noir on the map is the mirror scene. Even to this day, it's still incredible to watch, so you can give credit where credit is due (to Welles's directing) and watch the movie just for that scene. There's a great scene where a few of the characters are stuck in a house of mirrors, and as much as you struggle to find the camera showing in one of the reflections, you can't! Besides that, there's not much more to this movie than the average noir, except seeing Rita in strange-looking platinum hair.