13. ORSON WELLES
Touch of Evil (1958)

Fat as Falstaff, amoral as Harry Lime, imperious as Charles Foster Kane, Hank Quinlan is a sorry chunk of pride. When Welles first turns the camera on himself in this border-town noir, his veteran cop comes scowling out of a shadow, sucking on a cigar he will subsequently treat as if it were a candy bar. Or a pacifier. Expert intuition glinting in his bagged eyes and means of planting evidence stored in his swollen head, he is a great detective and a lousy cop — as Marlene Dietrich says at the end, ''some kind of a man.''