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Lady From Shanghai (1948) Orson Welles
Letter from An Unknown Woman (1948) Max Ophuls
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Good to see that this lesser known, chaotic Welles production in there. While it falls well short of Citizen Kane, The Magnificent Amberson and A Touch of Evil, I still think it is well and truly above the bar. The final scene in the house of mirrors is great, I think Bruce Lee must have watched it too
Letter from an Unknown Woman is such a great great film. Like M by Fritz Lang, a movie that really had no right to be made in that time and place, a tragedy, a stirring indictment of our pretensions and relationships in a time when the standard fare was an affirmation. Ophuls is also a lost treasure of directing talent I think, often overlooked in favour of other German contemporaries like King Vidor, Fritz Lang or F. W. Murnau, I still rate him amongst them.
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The Treasure of Sierra Madre (1948) John Huston (We don’t need no stinking badges…)
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Sorry to be a bit of a wanker, but that's one of the two most misquoted lines in the history of film. The other being 'Play it again Sam' a line which Bogart never utters in Casblanca. Funny that both films star old Bogie actually.
The actual exchange goes:
'Oh yeah, show me your badges!'
'Badges? We don't need no badges! I don't have to show you anystinking badges!'
Still, what a triumph of misanthropic sentiment this classic film is.