The Lady From Shanghai

TCM's Alicia Malone introduces The Lady From Shanghai, 1948.

Guest host Dave Karger introduces Lady From Shanghai, 1948.

Ben Mankiewicz introduces The Lady From Shanghai, 1948.

O'Hara (writer-director Orson Welles) drinking with buddies Jake (Louis Merrill) and Goldie (Gus Schilling), and lawyer and yachtsman Bannister (Everett Sloane), who's trying to hire him, at the request of wife Elsa (Rita Hayworth), in The Lady From Shanghai, 1948.

Now in San Francisco, Elsa (Rita Hayworth) has arranged to meet her lover, and her husband’s hired sailor Michael (writer-director and then-current Mr. Hayworth Orson Welles) at the (still-operating) Steinhart Aquarium, where he reveals the scheme he’s been lured into, in the second-most famous scene from The Lady From Shanghai, 1948.

On board the yacht with abusive lawyer-boss Bannister (Everett Sloane), his wife Elsa (Rita Hayworth, her song by Allan Roberts and Doris Fisher, vocal by Anita Ellis) and strange pal Grisby (Glenn Anders), hired sailor O'Hara (writer-director Orson Welles) fumes, in The Lady From Shanghai, 1948.

Original promo for TCM's May, 2015 Friday Night Spotlight programming on the career of Orson Welles, hosted by film critic David Edelstein, beginning Friday, May 1 at 8pm ET.

Opening scenes, writer, director and star Orson Welles as Irish drifter Michael O'Hara, meets mysterious Elsa Bannister (his wife, Rita Hayworth, from whom he'd recently separated) in New York, in The Lady From Shanghai, 1948.

On a brief stop-over in Acapulco, hired yacht sailor O'Hara (writer-director Orson Welles) ashore with spooky Grisby (Glenn Anders), the law partner of his boss, who reveals a dangerous scheme, in The Lady From Shanghai, 1948.