“There's a fair face to the land, surely, but you can't hide the...” – Michael O'Hara, The Lady from Shanghai ... Movie Quotes Database

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A scene from The Lady from Shanghai 1947

Michael O'Hara Orson Welles

[describing Acapulco]

There's a fair face to the land, surely, but you can't hide the hunger and guilt. It's a bright, guilty world.

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