This is it, “Touch of Evil” will be the final chance to catch a bit of summertime film noir.

Not that one wouldn’t be able to rent that or any other movie of the genre, take it home with them and feast on some of the foundations of modern film, this is just the final installment of a movie series that has brought folks together under cinema at the Port Orchard branch of the Kitsap Regional Library.

“That, in itself, has been the biggest thrill in this … sharing it with a group of people,” said series organizer Wally Clark. “It’s that communal thing, the effect of all these people sitting in the audience and we are all glued to the screen.”

Then, of course, following the feature is typically a low-key, yet rampant discussion of details, plot twists and historic importance of whichever movie has just been shown. Starting at 6 p.m. Aug. 2, those at the library will be talking about the late Orson Welles’ 1958 classic noir “Touch of Evil.”

In a seemingly failed, or at least somewhat problemed attempt at a return to Hollywood for Welles some 16 years after “Citizen Kane,” “Touch of Evil” was somewhat miffed as well from Welles’ point of view.

After his first viewing of it, he fired off a 58-page memo detailing his dissatisfaction with the producer’s cut. That memo was utilized 40 years later in a 1998 re-release which was intended to more completely follow Welles’ direction.

The jury is still out on which version will be shown at the Library, Clark said.

Either way, “Touch of Evil” is widely considered a closing bookend picture to the classic era of film noir.

“Here, you have pure corrupted law versus another lawman who’s doing his best to stay with the program legitimately,” Clark said. “And (the latter’s) new wife becomes a pawn in the struggle between good and evil.”

Honeymooning with his new bride Susan (Janet Leigh) in the frontier town of Los Robles, Mexico, Mexican special narcotics agent Mike Vargas (Charlton Heston) gets called away for business when a car bomb explodes at the border, killing the town’s boss. Vargas teams up with an overweight, corrupt American cop — Hank Quinlan, played by Welles — to investigate, while Susie’s left at the hands of the local crime family.

“It’s a supremely confident and stylish work,” British Broadcasting Company movie reviewer David Wood wrote of the film. “In which quintessential Wellesian themes of evil, corruption and moral ambiguity loom large.”

Those themes, paramount not only in Welles work but also in film noir in general, have been heavy throughout the Port Orchard Library’s series.

But, Clark said, “They haven’t all been gumshoe detectives, swilling whiskey and shooting their guns.”

Other films shown over the six-week series include: “The Maltese Falcon,” “Double Indemnity,” “Body and Soul,” “The Wrong Man,” and “The Killers.”

With the success that the series has seen in attracting a regular group of classic movie-goers, Clark said the library is poised for another go slated later this fall when it won’t have so much competition from sunny days and other summertime events.

Theme possibilities for that series are centering on sci-fi and adventure movies.

Film buffs with any thoughts or interest concerning future series, can contact Clark at the Port Orchard Library — (360) 876-2224 — or chat with him at the final installment of film noir — at 6 p.m. Aug. 2.