Touch of Evil
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Time Out says
A wonderfully offhand genesis (Welles adopting and adapting a shelved Paul Monash script for B-king Albert Zugsmith without ever reading the novel by Whit Masterson it was based on) marked this brief and unexpected return to Hollywood film-making for Welles. And the result more than justified the arrogance of the gesture. A sweaty thriller conundrum on character and corruption, justice and the law, worship and betrayal, it plays havoc with moral ambiguities as self-righteous Mexican cop Heston goes up against Welles' monumental Hank Quinlan, the old-time detective of vast and wearied experience who goes by instinct, gets it right, but fabricates evidence to make his case. Set in the backwater border hell-hole of Los Robles, inhabited almost solely by patented Wellesian grotesques, it's shot to resemble a nightscape from Kafka.Author: PT
Release details
UK release:
1958
Duration:
108 mins
Cast and crew
Cast:
Zsa Zsa Gabor, Joseph Calleia, Akim Tamiroff, Lalo Rios, Orson Welles, Mercedes McCambridge, Joseph Cotten, Janet Leigh, Charlton Heston, Dennis Weaver, Marlene Dietrich, Ray Collins
Art Director:
Robert Clatworthy, Alexander Golitzen
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