History Awesome / TouchOfEvil

'''Tana''': Adiós. ''(walks into the night)''
* As a meta example, TheOner tracking shots that pop up throughout the film, especially [[https://youtu.be/Yg8MqjoFvy4 the epic opening shot]] tracking across a city landscape as the doomed car and the main characters keep crossing each other's paths. Some of the best camera work of the era.
* Also one for Creator/CharltonHeston, in the scene where his character casually zips his car through the town's back alleyways; Heston really was simultaneously driving the car and acting. Mort Mills, next to him, had the boom microphone and the sound equipment practically sitting in his lap. Welles disliked the artificiality of shooting such driving-and-talking scenes [[DrivingADesk with rear projection on a soundstage]], or by having the actors' car towed by another car -- he wanted to film at least one car scene the way ''he'' thought it should be done, and Heston stepped up admirably.

* As a meta example, TheOner tracking shots that pop up throughout the film, especially [[https://youtu.be/Yg8MqjoFvy4 the epic opening shot]] tracking across a city landscape as the [[spoiler:doomed]] car and the main characters keep crossing each other's paths. Some of the best camera work of the era.

* Also one for Creator/CharltonHeston, in the scene where his character casually zips his car through the town's back alleyways; Heston really was simultaneously driving the car and acting. Mort Mills, next to him, had the boom microphone and the sound equipment practically sitting in his lap. Welles disliked the artificiality of shooting such driving-and-talking scenes with rear projection on a soundstage, or by having the actors' car towed by another car -- he wanted to film at least one car scene the way ''he'' thought it should be done, and Heston stepped up admirably.

'''Tana''': ''And a lousy cop.''\\

'''Tana''' (sighs): He was some kind of a man... What does it matter what you say about people?\\

'''Tana''': Adiós. (walks into the night)

* Also one for Creator/CharltonHeston, in the scene where his character casually zips his car through the town's back alleyways; Heston really was simultaneously driving the car and acting.

* As a meta example, TheOner tracking shots that pop up throughout the film, especially [[https://youtu.be/Yg8MqjoFvy4 the epic opening shot]] tracking across a city landscape as the [[spoiler:doomed]] car and the main characters keep crossing each other's paths.

* As a meta example, TheOner tracking shots that pop up throughout the film, especially the epic opening shot tracking across a city landscape as the [[spoiler:doomed]] car and the main characters keep crossing each other's paths.

* Also one for Creator/CharltonHeston, in the scene where his character casually zips his car through town's back alleyways; Heston really was simultaneously driving the car and acting.

* [[http://youtu.be/jeccTYUrb_Q The ending]]. More [[BittersweetingEnding bittersweet]] than [[DownerEnding depressing]], but also the best way to end the best B-movie FilmNoir in history.