Review of Touch of Evil (1958) by Noel V — 14 May 2008

Forget Blade Runner, if you want a more comprehensively detailed portrait of decay and death, this is the film to see. Done on a budget probably about the size of Blade's laundry service, Welles creates his most fully realized vision of the darkness at the heart of American noir, and the result has influenced everything from Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho to Ridley Scott's entire filmography.

If there had to be a greatest noir ever made survey put out, this would have my first and only vote.