• By Murilee Martin
    Sep 19, 2008 4:00 PM 1,040
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    I've Got This Ticking Noise In My Head!

    The lengthy tracking shot showing vast quantities of old European cars in Week End was pretty cool, but when you use the words "lengthy tracking shot" and "cars" together in a sentence, you've got no choice but to bring up the opening shot in Orson Welles' 1958 Touch Of Evil. A 1956 Chrysler New Yorker convertible is the ill-fated star of this sequence, but we're pretty sure- well, we hope- a beater stunt double was used for the last bit.



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