The Lady from Shanghai (1947)
Directed by Orson Welles · Cinematography by Charles Lawton Jr.
Approved87 min65 frames
MysteryCrimeThrillerDrama
I told you... you know nothing about wickedness
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What is The Lady from Shanghai about?
A romantic drifter gets caught between a corrupt tycoon and his voluptuous wife.
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What does the cinematography of The Lady from Shanghai look like?
Sampled across 65 frames, the coverage of The Lady from Shanghai leans on close-ups (34% of the sample) and medium shots (31%). Cinematographer Charles Lawton Jr. keeps 34% of it in hard-edged, low-key light. Night and dusk account for 52% of the frames. Vintage glass shapes the frame. The production design places the film in the 1940s.
What is the color palette of The Lady from Shanghai?
The dominant colors across the sampled frames of The Lady from Shanghai (1947) are #060606, #303030, #6f6f6f, #8e8e8e, #cbcbcb, #494949 — measured from the per-frame color data FrameThrower extracts for every film.
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