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Aug 28, 2021 · Touch of Evil is a 1958 American FILM NOlR written and directed by Orson Welles, who also stars in the film. The screenplay was loosely based on the contemporary Whit Masterson novel Badge of Evil (1956).
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Jul 28, 2020 · This is an acknowledged masterpiece, and everyone should see it at least once. It is based on the novel BADGE OF EVIL by Robert Allison "Bob" Wade (1920-2012) and H. Bill Miller (1920-61) using the pseudonym Whit Masterson. The screenplay is by Orson Welles. who also directed this film noir classic.
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Apr 24, 2021 · Touch of Evil (1958) 04/24/2021 | 1h 35m 23s |. My List. Charlton Heston portrays a Mexican narcotics officer on his honeymoon with his American wife (Janet Leigh) across the border. When a...
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Charlton Heston, Janet Leigh and Orson Welles give unforgettable performances in this film noir masterpiece about a crooked police chief and the honorable investigator who tries to stop him.
Touch of Evil. Experience Orson Welles' timeless masterpiece, Touch of Evil, complete and uncut with restored footage for the first time ever! This exceptional film noir portrait of corruption and morally-compromised obsessions stars Welles as Hank Quinlan, a crooked police chief who frames a Mexican youth as part of an intricate criminal plot.
Sep 25, 2023 · Touch of Evil begins with one of the most brilliant sequences in the history of cinema; and ends with one of the most brilliant final scenes ever committed to celluloid. In between unfurls a picture whose moral, sexual, racial, and aesthetic attitudes remain so radical as to cross borders established not only in 1958, but in the present age also.
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Touch of Evil. A Mexican official and his American wife are targeted in a Texas border town by the crime family he's trying to put behind bars for drug trafficking, as his concern grows over the tactics of the local detective whose cooperation he needs.
