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Touch of Evil : Prologue and Murder in Mexico

At the US-Mexico border, Miguel Vargas (Charlton Heston) and his wife Suzie (Janet Leigh) witness a bomb explode in the trunk of a car, killing two.

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brownface, close-up, crane shot, diegetic sound, everyday mise-en-scene, fade-in, high angle, lighting, long shot, long take, low angle, music, diegetic, pan, reaction shot, shock cut, soft focus, source music, stinger, tracking shot, traveling shot, two-shot, zoom-in

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"Prologue and Murder in Mexico" in Touch of Evil. Directed by Orson Welles, Universal International Pictures, 1958, Kinolab, https://kinolab.org/FilmClip.php?id=1464

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