Touch of Evil

Touch of Evil is a 1958 American film noir crime thriller film, written, directed by, and costarring Orson Welles. The screenplay was loosely based on the novel Badge of Evil by Whit Masterson. Along with Welles, the cast includes Charlton Heston, Janet Leigh, Joseph Calleia, Akim Tamiroff, and Marlene Dietrich.

In a Mexican town along the U.S.Mexico border, a time bomb is planted in a car. A man and woman enter the vehicle and make a slow journey through town to the U.S. border, the woman Joi Lansing insisting that she hears something ticking. Newlyweds Miguel Mike Vargas Charlton Heston, a drug enforcement official in the Mexican government, and his wife Susie Janet Leigh pass the car several times on foot. The car crosses the border, then explodes, killing the occupants. The cut to the exploding car is the first one in the film, the singlecamera opening sequence lasting nearly three and onehalf minutes.Realizing the implications of a Mexican bomb exploding on American soil, Vargas takes an interest in the investigation. Police Chief Pete Gould Harry Shannon and District Attorney Adair Ray Collins arrive on the scene, followed by the gamelegged police Captain Hank Quinlan Orson Welles and Quinlans longtime partner, Pete Menzies Joseph Calleia who clearly worships Quinlan. The obese and dishevelled Captain nostalgically visits a brothel run by Tanya Marlene Dietrich, who barely recognizes him. ........

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