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- Touch of Evil (1958) - Directed by Orson Welles, produced by Rick Schmidlin, Albert Zugsmith and starring Charlton Heston, Janet Leigh, Orson Welles, Joseph Calleia, Akim Tamiroff, Joanna Moore, Ray Collins, Dennis Weaver,and more...
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Touch of Evil is a 1958 American film noir 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).
A close look behind the scenes of the classic Orson Welles vehicle Touch of Evil revealing detailed information about the production and filming process, discussed by actors Charlton Heston and Janet Leigh, restoration producer Rick Schmidlin, crew members and film historians.
Touch Of Evil | 1958. Orson Welles returned to Hollywood twenty years after his last American film, the studio-bound Macbeth, to film Whit Masterson 's novel Badge of Evil, adapting the book himself. Universal wanted him to make the movie in the studio.
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.
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- Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
- Orson Welles
- 1958-04-23
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- Production notes and credits
- Cast
Touch of Evil, American film noir, released in 1958, that was written and directed by Orson Welles, who also costarred in the crime drama. The film was a box-office disappointment, but in later years it was recognized as one of the final gems of the classic film noir period of the 1940s and ’50s.
Set in a sleazy town along the U.S.-Mexico border, Touch of Evil features a Mexican narcotics officer (played by Charlton Heston) whose honeymoon is interrupted by his sudden involvement in a murder case. In attempting to run his own investigations, he establishes a confrontational relationship with a crooked police captain (played by Welles) whose methods of enforcing the law often include breaking it. Heston’s new wife (played by Janet Leigh) finds herself a liability to her husband when she is kidnapped and framed by hoodlums working for Welles’s cop.
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•Studio: Universal Pictures
•Director and writer: Orson Welles
•Music: Henry Mancini
•Running time: 95 minutes
•Charlton Heston (Ramon Miguel [Mike] Vargas)
•Orson Welles (Police Capt. Hank Quinlan)
•Janet Leigh (Susan [Susie] Vargas)
•Joseph Calleia (Police Sgt. Pete Menzies)
•Akim Tamiroff (“Uncle Joe” Grandi)
•Marlene Dietrich (Tanya)
- Lee Pfeiffer
Sep 13, 1998 · It was named best film at the 1958 Brussels World Fair (Godard and Truffaut were on the jury), but in America it opened on the bottom half of a double bill, failed, and put an end to Welles’ prospects of working within the studio system.
Touch of Evil (1958) is a great American film noir crime thriller, dark mystery, and cult classic - another technical masterpiece from writer-director-actor Orson Welles. It was Orson Welles' fifth Hollywood film - and it was his last American film.
