Touch of Evil (1958)

Review: Touch of Evil (1958)

Director: Orson Welles

Cast: Charlton Heston, Janet Leigh, Orson Welles, Joseph Calleia, Akim Tamiroff,

Charlton Heston
Charlton Heston
Janet Leigh
Janet Leigh
Orson Welles
Orson Welles
Joseph Calleia
Joseph Calleia
Akim Tamiroff
Akim Tamiroff

Plot: 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.

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The myth of Orson Welles’ failure

The myth of Orson Welles’ failure

Forty years after Pauline Kael wrote her hatchet job Raising Kane (The New Yorker, Feb. 20-27, 1971), the myth of Orson Welles’ arrogance and failure is apparently still alive and kicking. In his August 13 column, Glenn Erickson over at DVD […]

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