Orson Welles's baroque film noir masterpiece opens with one of cinema's most celebrated tracking shots and only deepens from there. Welles directs and stars as Hank Quinlan, a corrupt, bloated border-town cop clashing with an idealistic Mexican official (Charlton Heston) after a car bombing. Shadow-drenched and morally rotten, with Marlene Dietrich in an unforgettable turn, it was recut by the studio but later restored to Welles's vision. A landmark that many consider the last classic-era noir.