SF Free Film Festival: “The Lady from Shanghai” | Excelsior

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Classic San Francisco Movies: SF Library’s Free Film Festival | 2014

Enjoy free movies all summer long at your neighborhood library during the 3rd Annual San Francisco Library Film Festival. Every movie being screened is either set in San Francisco or was filmed here.

The 2014 edition of this free film festival features San Francisco classics including the amazing car chase scenes of Bullitt, a screening of Milk at the Milk Library, monsters destroying San Francisco in the 1950s in It Came From Beneath the Sea and more.

Free popcorn? Several of the screenings (though none at the Main Library) will have free popcorn.

Wednesday, July 10, 2013
The Lady from Shanghai | Classic San Francisco Movies: SF Library’s Free Film Festival | 2014

In the The Lady from Shanghai, Michael O’Hara (Orson Welles), an Irish seaman falls for Elsa Bannister (Rita Hayworth), a seductive bombshell married to wealthy lawyer Aurthur Bannister (Everett Sloane).

Elsa and Aurthur frame Michael for a murder Elsa committed. Orson Welles wrote, produced, directed, and starred in this film noir thriller with a bizarre twist.

Disclaimer: Please double check event information with the event organizer as events can be canceled, details can change after they are added to our calendar, and errors do occur.