Jean: Why Hopsie! (He rises to his feet and goes to the door.She giggles to herself.) BackgroundThe Lady From Shanghai(1948) is an imaginative, complicated, unsettlingfilm noirwho-dun-it thriller, with fascinating visuals and tilting compositions, luminous and brilliant camerawork (by Charles Lawton, Jr.She ran to the dock, took a motorboat out into the lake, and screamed at her father when he came after her: "Go away! I hate you! I wish you were dead!" Suddenly, her wish was granted -- her uncontrollable, latent, anger-triggered elekinetic powers surged through the water, collapsed the dock, and accidentally drowned her father(# 1 death).Marty laments his bachelorhood and is unwillingly resigned to his fate:Listen, Ange.I""ve been looking for a girl every Saturday night of my life.I""m thirty-four years old.I""m just ired of looking, that""s all.I""d like to find a girl.Everybody""s always telling me, ""Get married, get married, get married!"" Don""t you think I want to get married? I want to get married.Therefore it was heartbreaking to her mother that she would enter into marriage with William Munny, a known thief and murderer, a man of notoriously vicious and intemperate disposition.