A box-office and critical failure in 1948, The Lady from Shanghai is now considered one of Orson Welles’ masterpieces, despite its vexed production history. Welles’ film features a controversially blonde Rita Hayworth (in her last film under contract to Columbia Pictures) as an enigmatic temptress who lures an unsuspecting Welles into a complex murder plot. Filmed in part on Errol Flynn’s yacht, the Zaca, the film has become famous for the climactic ending—a cornucopica shoot-out in a fun-house hall of mirrors that has become a classic moment of Hollywood Noir.