Touch of Evil - Opening Scene - With Street and Theme Music

do you realize i haven't kissed you in over an hour

At 1:58 someone walks in front of the camera from the right-hand side that looks a lot like Orson Welles. Cameo, perhaps?

This film completely captures that bleak, dark, gritty feel of film noir I love. Made me want to sit in the sun for a few hours just to shake off the egrossing nature of the films setting.

Check Robert Altman's Homage at the beginning of The Player.

Woah! I don't know of another single shot quite as long and powerful.

probably the best possible version of the opening

Those heavy cameras from the period gave the sequences such a fluid and dancing beauty feeling in the movement, and those open lenses as well...

This is a gift, as we presume welles want it:

Mixing all these popular latin musics and taking away the titles.

It is really odd these Welles films had so much trouble to come out and connect, because the sense of spectacle he had was simply unparalelled. This is both exquisite and spectacular, and humorous ads hell...

superior to citizen kane

GENIAL!!!
A (SÉTIMA) ARTE NO SEU EXPOENTE MÁXIMO!!!
UM DOS MELHORES FILMES DE TODOS OS TEMPOS, NATUARALMENTE, REALIZADO (e interpretado) POR UM GÉNIO!!!

Most amazing opening ever. Orson Wells you are a genius.