Lady from Shanghai?

[LARSSON at VAX1.Mankato.MSUS.EDU]

Asked:
"27.27 `La Changhaienne' The Lady From Shanghai' an Orson Welles
film. Anyone able to connect the film and the novel or is this just 
a little joke?"

A joke, I think, still . . . 

THE LADY FROM SHANGHAI is a film about deception and the rich. Welles
plays a sailor recruited by a wealthy man for a cruise on his yacht.
Along the way, it seems that Welles is being Used by those aboard--
to seduce a wife?  to confirm her infidelity?  to plot against the
husband? to help another fake a suicide?

The film's last sequence includes a delirious murder trial, a chase through
a Chinese theater and ending in the famous scene in a hall of mirrors
in an amusement park.  Lots of Kute Korrespondences, if nothing else!

Don Larsson, Mankato State U (MN)