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Turtles in Movies   The Lady From Shanghai (1947)   Spoiler Alert ! Some of these pictures and descriptions may give away plot details that you might not want to know before watching the film.   This is one of my favorite Film Noirs, starring Orson Welles and Rita Hayworth. It has some some great scenes in San Francisco Chinatown, and a fantastic finale in a closed amusement park and "crazy house" hall of mirrors. I was surprised, watching it again after many years, to see that there is a scene with a snake in the film and a visit to the great Steinhardt Aquarium in San Francisco where we see a sea turtle. It's a trivial background turtle, but it's a fun scene. Orson Welles' character meets his employer's wife (Rita Hayworth) in the Steinhardt Aquarium in San Francisco. She tells him that nobody will see them there because only tourists and schoolchildren go to the aquarium, to which he adds "lovers" to the list of visitors, and they begin to kiss. When some schoolchildren arrive, the couple leaves, walking past a sea turtle in an aquarium. (Those were the days when aquariums put them in small tanks.) The Lineup (1958) also has a nice background scene in the Steinhardt Aquarium.)