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La película Touch of Evil (1958) de Orson Welles es frecuentemente considerada como el último gran film noir norteamericano e inspiradora de movimientos cinematográficos como la nueva ola francesa. La acción de la película transcurre en una ciudad ficticia de nombre Los Robles, situada en la frontera México/Estados Unidos. Aunque la locación real de filmación fue Venice, California ...
Mexico's chief narcotics officer, Mike Vargas, is in a border town on a quick honeymoon with his American wife. Soon he must testify against Grandi, a drug lord whose brother and sons are tracking him, hoping to scare his wife and back him off the case. When a car bomb kills a rich U.S. developer, Vargas embroils himself in the investigation ...
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 ...
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.
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 ...
6 de oct. de 2020 · Touch of Evil - Are You Wearing a Wire?: Captain Hank Quinlan (Orson Welles) figures out that Pete Menzies (Joseph Calleia) is wearing a bug transmitting to ...
12 de abr. de 2024 · With its story of murder, marijuana and police corruption, Touch of Evil is considered among the last of the 1940s/50s cycle of crime thrillers known as film noir. Welles’ vivid turn as corpulent bent cop Quinlan provided one of the genre’s most memorable villains. Iniquity south of the border also colours Welles’ prior film noir, The ...
