Film Screening - The 1947 Film Noir "The Lady From Shanghai"

Mike O'Hara (Orson Welles), a sailor and a dreamer, meets and falls for the beautiful Elsa Bannister (Rita Hayworth) in New York's Central Park. She tells him she and her lawyer husband Arthur Bannister (Everett Sloane) are about to sail their yacht to San Francisco by way of the Panama Canal. They need a skipper and she offers O'Hara the job. He takes it on but as the journey progresses he finds himself being pulled into a bizarre murder scheme.

After the movie stick around for a short presentation on the film and a discussion with film historian and educator Paul Laverack (via Zoom)!!

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