- In the 1984 Sergio Leone film Once Upon a Time in America, Robert DeNiro's character Noodles hides out in a Chinese theatre, a front for an opium den, alluding to a scene in which Orson Welles' character hides out in a Chinese theatre to evade the law.
- In the 1989 movie Ghostbusters II (1989), Rick Moranis, Annie Potts, and Sigourney Weaver's characters are watching The Lady from Shanghai on the TV in Bill Murray's character's apartment. Moranis and Potts were discussing the relationship between Welles and Hayworth.
- The Woody Allen film Manhattan Murder Mystery (1993), a comedy film noir, features a tribute to the film, with its climactic gun battle being set in a cinema behind the screen while it is projecting the shoot-out from The Lady from Shanghai.
- In the 1998 Farrelly brothers comedy, There's Something About Mary, the character of Tucker appears to be based on Arthur Bannister, played by Everett Sloane.
- In the Jim Jarmusch film The Limits of Control (2009), Tilda Swinton's character says that the movie makes no sense.
Hall of mirrors sequence
The climactic hall of mirrors sequence has entered the narrative of cinema as a trope, replicated countless times in both film and television.[23] Examples include:
- The 1965 television episode of The Avengers entitled "Too Many Christmas Trees", and broadcast on Christmas Day in the UK, features Steed (Patrick Macnee) and Mrs. Peel (Diana Rigg) confronting their nemesis in a hall of mirrors shoot-out.
- In the 1970 television episode of Randall and Hopkirk (Deceased) entitled "Vendetta for a Dead Man", Eric Jansen (George Sewell) menaces Jeannie Hopkirk (Annette Andre) in a hall of mirrors.
- In the 1973 Robert Clouse film Enter the Dragon, Bruce Lee's character fights the villain Mr. Han in a hall of mirrors.
- In the 1974 James Bond film The Man with the Golden Gun, Bond and the villain, Francisco Scaramanga, have a climactic shootout in a hall of mirrors.[24]
- The 1989 MacGyver episode "Brainwashed" has a scene involving MacGyver's brainwashed friend, Jack Dalton, shooting at him in a hall of mirrors.[25] Episode writer John Sheppard credited The Lady from Shanghai as an influence.[26]
- In the Batman: The Animated Series cartoon episode "Baby Doll" (1994), Mary Dahl shoots out all the Hall of Mirrors while hiding from Batman.
- In the Chad Stahelski film John Wick: Chapter 2 (2017), Keanu Reeves's character fights the pre-final showdown in a museum's hall of mirrors.[27]
