Touch of Evil
Film details
| Film Title | Touch of Evil |
|---|---|
| Suitability | |
| Genre | |
| Length | 111mins |
| Year | 1958 |
| Country | United States of America |
| Director | Orson Welles |
| Actors | Charlton Heston, Janet Leigh, Orson Welles, Joseph Calleia, Akim Tamiroff, Joanna Moore, Ray Collins, Dennis Weaver, Valentin de Vargas, Mort Mills, Victor Millan, Lalo Rios, Michael Sargent, Phil Harvey, Joi Lansing |
| Language | Spanish, English |
| Showings |
When a car bomb explodes on the American side of the U.S./Mexico border, Mexican drug enforcement agent Miguel Vargas begins his investigation, along with American police captain Hank Quinlan. When Vargas begins to suspect that Quinlan and his shady partner, Menzies, are planting evidence to frame an innocent man, his investigations into their possible corruption quickly put himself and his new bride, Susie, in jeopardy.
Citizen Kane may be the more weighty, rounded work, but Touch of Evil is a heap more fun.
★★★★★
Adapted by Welles from Whit Masterson’s pulp thriller Badge of Evil, it had streaks of teen degradation and reefer madness, and the most intense interracial relationship since The Searchers.
★★★★★
A sweaty thriller conundrum on character and corruption, justice and the law, worship and betrayal, it plays havoc with moral ambiguities.
★★★★★
