What 1947 film directed by Orson Welles features a famous shootout in a hall of mirrors?

The 1947 film directed by Orson Welles that features a famous shootout in a hall of mirrors is The Lady from Shanghai.

This American film noir stars Welles as Michael O’Hara, an Irish sailor drawn into a dangerous scheme involving Elsa Bannister, played by Rita Hayworth, and her husband, Arthur Bannister. Welles and Hayworth were married during production, although their marriage was breaking down.

The celebrated climax takes place in a mirror maze at an amusement park. Multiple reflections create confusion about which figures are real, turning the shootout into a visual expression of the film’s themes: deception, unstable identities, and manipulated appearances. The sequence became one of the defining images of film noir.

A common mix-up is with Touch of Evil, another Welles-directed noir, but that film was released in 1958 and is best known for its elaborate opening tracking shot. The Lady from Shanghai was produced in 1947, though its U.S. release came in 1948.