Welles/Heston B&W cult noir is great on a technical level, but meh as a viewing experience

On the Texas border a Mexican detective (Charlton Heston) assists an American investigation into a shocking murder of an American official on the border, but he soon learns th...

We start with a man putting a bomb in a car on the Mexican side of the border. When it explodes on the American side flattening the occupants, the local "Capt. Quinlan" (Orson Welles) decides to make a bit of a cursory investigation - in cahoots with his opposite number...

It's not Orson Welles' best work, and there are some problems and wrong choices, but it's still a worthwhile film.

One crime and two totally different men: this sentence almost sums up the entire film. Director Orson Welles is one of those monsters that we are us...