— Personally, I don't like a girlfriend to have a husband. If she'll fool her husband, I figure she'll fool me.
"Grisby" reminds me of the French slang «grisbi», i.e. "loot".
A movie like The Lady from Shanghai is entertaining, challenging, and teems with the brilliance of its maker, but it is incomplete, like a pulp Venus de Milo. Viola Lawrence was a perfectly good editor (she edited In A Lonely Place [1950]), but as many times as I have seen this movie I can never shake the feeling that the masterpiece it might have been ended up on the floor of her cutting room.
— Jake Hinkson (Criminal Element)
A romantic drifter gets caught between a corrupt tycoon and his voluptuous wife.