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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. Charlton Heston plays an honorable Mexican narcotics ...
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.
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 ...
9 de jul. de 2015 · To associate with Quinlan is to be touched, smeared, molested by pure evil. But poor Quinlan long ago resigned himself to his own petty corruption. When Orson met Larry: ‘Welles was a very bad boy.
25 de abr. de 2003 · Touch of Evil was based on Whit Masterson's pulp novel Badge of Evil.The project sat on producer Albert Zugsmith's shelf for some time before it saw the light of day. Through a misunderstanding, Charlton Heston, the star of Touch of Evil, thought Welles was going to direct the film.When he learned otherwise, he insisted that the studio offer Welles the job.
23 de may. de 2023 · “Touch of Evil” (Sed De Mal, 1958) es la última película que Orson Welles rueda en Hollywood. Los ejecutivos de la Universal Studios, espantados ante el visionado de “Touch of Evil” (1958), le arrebataron la película para remontarla y rodar escenas adicionales sin contar con él. Orson Welles escribió un memorando de 58 páginas con las indicaciones para realizar un nuevo montaje ...
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 ...
