1958 • Charlton Heston, Janet Leigh, Orson Welles, Marlene Dietrich
Directed by Orson Welles
Introduced by Harlan Lebo
Initially dismissed by critics (they always had a love-hate relationship with Welles), the film slowly found admiration over the years. It is now heralded as one of the most popular classic-era noir films and considered to be some of Welles’s best work. The film was shot mostly in Venice, California with distinctive cinematography by Russell Metty.