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10 Movies From 1947 That Are Now Considered Classics Noir films like The Lady from Shanghai, Out of the Past, and Kiss of Death are all among the very best movies from 1947 we now consider classics.

Movie TV Tech Geeks #Movie #FilmNoir #TheLadyFromShanghai 10 Movies From 1947 That Are Now Considered Classics

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Mid-day Welles!

Now watching - THE LADY FROM SHANGHAI (1947) D. Orson Welles

#theladyfromshanghai #orsonwelles

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MOVIE QUOTE OF THE DAY:
“If I’d only knew where it would end, I’d never had let anything start.”
Orson Welles in The Lady From Shanghai
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now playing: #theladyfromshanghai, 1947.
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Mini Movie Reviews: Femme Fatales Mark Greig reviews classic noir films including Double Indemnity and The Maltese Falcon.

Mini Movie Reviews by Mark Greig with this post's theme, Femme Fatales. www.douxreviews.com/2025/10/mini... #DoubleIndemnity #niagara #outofthepast #thebluedahlia #TheMalteseFalcon #Gilda #TheLadyfromShanghai

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MOVIE QUOTE OF THE DAY:
“Either me or the whole rest of the world was absolutely insane.”
Orson Welles in The Lady From Shanghai
#TheLadyFromShanghai #Welles #OrsonWelles
#moviequotes #moviequoteoftheday

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I kinda like that whatever happened in chinatown is only alluded to. The imagination > anything they could show us. We know it was life altering and involved a woman.
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#Chinatown

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…and they'd sidle up to the record player to find out what it was. They'd see a label on the top disc, handmade by my grandpop, that said, "GO HOME."
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A final confrontation between Michael, Elsa, and Arthur in a mirror maze ends in a shootout
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As Michael finally succumbs to the pills, Elsa's allies take him to a funhouse in a closed amusement park. After he wakes, he works out that Elsa planned to murder Bannister with Grisby's help and then kill her accomplice. Broome's death was a complication
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Michael flees to Chinatown, followed by Elsa, who catches up with him in a Chinese opera house. She makes a phone call to her servant, Li, and then joins Michael in the audience, where he takes the gun out of her handbag and IDs it as the Grisby murder weapon
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Just before the jury is about to announce their verdict, Arthur confesses he wants Michael to be convicted so he can draw out the appeals process. At Elsa's silent urging, Michael swallows some of Arthur's pain medicine. He knocks out his guards and escapes
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During Michael's trial, the prosecutor calls both Arthur and Elsa Bannister as witnesses. He asks if Broome was surveilling Elsa and states that she and Michael had been seen kissing in public
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Elsa visits Michael in jail and asks why he shot Broome. He tells her that Grisby shot Broome because Broome knew that Grisby wanted to kill Arthur. As they talk, Michael learns that Grisby had lied about being married while pitching his scheme
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Michael is tried for Grisby's murder, with Arthur defending him. The gun used to shoot George is missing, while it turns out Broome was shot with Michael's gun. Arthur points out George's stated motive makes no sense: he couldn't claim his own life insurance
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I don’t care how convoluted and surreal #TheLadyFromShanghai is, there’s no excuse for Welles’ Irish accent

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Michael tries to phone Elsa and gets Broome, who tells him Grisby's plot is meant to establish an alibi for the murder of Bannister. Michael drives to the Bannister home and finds Arthur alive and George dead. The cops read Michael's "confession" and arrest him
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Elsa finds Broome in the kitchen, and he urges her to warn Arthur that he's in danger. Meanwhile, Michael and Grisby go to the waterfront, where Grisby leaves in a motorboat while Michael fires a gun and is confronted by a crowd
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Michael and Elsa meet at the aquarium. Michael explains Grisby's plot to Elsa. That night, Broome accuses Grisby of conspiring with Elsa and tries to blackmail him. Grisby shoots him and then leaves with Michael, who is unaware of what happened
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Grisby says he wants to fake his own death and disappear. He claims that if Michael signs a false confession taking responsibility for killing him, Grisby will be declared dead, but Michael cannot be convicted as long as there is no corpse
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Michael asks Elsa to run away with him, but she refuses, unwilling to give up Bannister's money. Michael considers accepting Grisby's offer to bankroll their elopement
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During the trip from NYC to San Francisco, Elsa and Michael draw closer despite needling by Bannister, Grisby, and Broome. Broome warns Arthur about a plot against is life and is told that Arthur knows about it. Grisby offers Michael $5000 to "kill" him
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After Michael O'Hara saves Elsa Bannister from a mugging, her husband, Arthur Bannister, hires Michael to work aboard their yacht. The passengers include Arthur's partner, George Grisby, and Sidney Broome, who Elsa says her husband has hired to watch her
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Let's take another crack at summarizing #TheLadyFromShanghai!
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Errol Flynn's own yacht, ZACA was used for the exterior and onboard location shots. Even Flynn's pet dachshund makes a cameo.
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showtime in Brooklyn

background Room in Brooklyn by
#EdwardHopper

#RobertMitchum in #OutofthePast

#RitaHayworth in #TheLadyfromShanghai

and Mark Stevens in The Dark Corner

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Rita Hayworth in the final scene of Lady from Shanghai. She lies dying from a gunshot wound on a fun-house floor as an indifferent Orson Welles exits the building.

Rita Hayworth in the final scene of Lady from Shanghai. She lies dying from a gunshot wound on a fun-house floor as an indifferent Orson Welles exits the building.

"Give my love to the sunrise."

I've often said that I want that line etched on my tombstone.

But as I grow older, I worry that its subtle passive-aggressive viciousness, absent the original context, will be lost on cemetery audiences.

Goddamn philistines.

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"You know, for a smart girl, you make a lot of mistakes. You should've let me live. You're going to need a good lawyer."
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