Touch of Evil (1958 ) 9 out of 10       

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0052311/

Hey I've got this....I've got this ticking noise....There's a ticking noise in my head.
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My first Orson Welles movie. What can I say? The man was a genius. The movie takes place on the Mexican border and revolves around three princibal characters. Vargas who's a Mexican cop. There's Susan who's being framed for murder and then there's Quinlan played by Orson Welles. Quinland is a dirty cop who plants evidence on a crime scene. But Vargas knows he did it and he's coming after him.

I truly enjoyed this. A very realistically done movie and a very dark one. There aren't many day scenes here. One thing I really enjoyed was the quirky motel clerk who sort of resembled Norman Bates. You know who I'm talking about. One thing I noticed was that one of the songs that plated on the car radio closely resembled the theme song to the original Casino Royale. There's off screen action in this movie and that's a thing I really like in movies. It gives you time to think in stead of having it thrown in your face all the time. Now one downside was that I saw Get Shorty before this movie and in a scene in Get Shorty they show the ending to this movie. But it didn't ruin it that much.

A very good film. Recommended.