This baroque nightmare of a south-of-the-border mystery is considered to be one of the great movies of Orson Welles, who both directed and starred in it. On honeymoon with his new bride, Susan (Janet Leigh), Mexican-born policeman Mike Vargas (Charlton Heston) agrees to investigate a bomb explosion. In so doing, he incurs the wrath of local police chief Hank Quinlan (Welles), a corrupt, bullying behemoth with a perfect arrest record. Vargas suspects that Quinlan has planted evidence to win his past convictions, and he isn’t about to let the suspect in the current case be railroaded. Quinlan, whose obsession with his own brand of justice is motivated by the long-ago murder of his wife, is equally determined to get Vargas out of his hair, and he makes a deal with local crime boss Uncle Joe Grandi (Akim Tamiroff) to frame Susan on a drug rap, leading to one of the movie’s many truly harrowing sequences. Touch of Evil dissects the nature of good and evil in a hallucinatory, nightmarish ambience, helped by the shadow-laden cinematography of Russell Metty and by the cast, which, along with Tamiroff and Welles includes Charlton Heston as a Mexican; Marlene Dietrich, in a brunette wig, as a brittle madam who delivers the movie’s unforgettable closing words; Mercedes McCambridge as a junkie; and Dennis Weaver as a tremulous motel clerk. Touch of Evil has been released with four different running times — 95 minutes for the 1958 original, which was taken away from Welles and brutally cut by the studio; 108 minutes and 114 minutes in later versions; and 111 minutes in the 1998 restoration. Based on a 58-page memo written by Welles after he was barred from the editing room during the film’s original post-production, this restoration, among numerous other changes, removed the opening titles and Henry Mancini’s music from the opening crane shot, which in either version ranks as one of the most remarkably extended long takes in movie history., Brutal thriller about a just-married Mexican lawman and a corrupt American detective who clash when they both investigate a murder on the US-Mexico border., Orson Welles directed and stars in this stylish thriller about a corrupt detective in a Mexican border town., Orson Welles directed and stars in this stylish thriller about a corrupt detective in a Mexican border town. Orson Welles directed and stars in this stylish thriller about a corrupt detective in a Mexican border town., A Mexican investigator is drawn into an American investigation while on his honeymoon, when a Mexican national is accused of a bombing. But the corrupt local sheriff will stop at nothing to ‘prove’ his case., Orson Welles directed and stars in this thriller about a corrupt detective in a Mexican border town., Classic tale of murder and corruption on the Mexican border, as Mexican-born policeman Mike Vargas tangles with local police chief Hank Quinlan., Orson Welles directed and stars in this stylish thriller about a corrupt detective in a Mexican border town. Charlton Heston, Janet Leigh, Marlene Dietrich, Joseph Calleia, Akim Tamiroff, Joanna Moore, Zsa Zsa Gabor. Score by Henry Mancini., Film noir starring Orson Welles as Hank Quinlan, the corrupt detective who is prepared to frame anyone and everyone in an effort to keep power in his Mexican border town. Charlton Heston is the innocent Mexican agent Mike Vargas, who unwittingly gets involved with Quinlan’s latest frame-up.
Q&A :
Q: Who are the main cast members in “Touch of Evil ” ?
A: The main cast includes Orson Welles,Charlton Heston,Janet Leigh,Marlene Dietrich,Joseph Calleia,Akim Tamiroff,Val de Vargas,Ray Collins,Valentin de Vargas,Dennis Weaver,Joanna Moore,Mort Mills,Victor Millan,Lalo Rios,Michael Sargent,Mercedes McCambridge,Joseph Cotten,Zsa Zsa Gabor,Phil Harvey,Joi Lansing,Ken Miller,Harry Shannon,Rusty Wescoatt,Wayne Taylor,Kenny Miller,Raymond Rodriguez,Arlene McQuade,Dominick Delgarde,Joe Basulto,Jennie Dias,Yolanda Bojorquez,Eleanor Dorado,Keenan Wynn,Joanna Cook Moore,Orson Welles,Bud Westmore,Bill Thomas,Leslie I. Carey,Joseph Gershenson,Aaron Stell,Alexander Golitzen,Virgil Vogel,Robert Clatworthy,Russell A. Gausman,Russell Metty.
Q: When Did the “Touch of Evil” Released?
A: The Movie “Touch of Evil” originally aired on 1958-04-23 and released in the year of 1958.
Q: What Languages are available to watch “Touch of Evil” ?
A: Is also available in eng language.
Q: Where to watch “Touch of Evil” ?
A: “Touch of Evil” is Avaiable on Netflix. as its Netflix Originals.
