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Sep 4, 2024 · Set in a sleazy town along the U.S.-Mexico border, Touch of Evil features a Mexican narcotics officer (played by Charlton Heston) whose honeymoon is interrupted by his sudden involvement in a murder case.
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Sep 10, 2024 · In Touch of Evil, this idea is delivered with striking sharpness. The film features two main characters: a Mexican cop and a sheriff. One is trying to save his wife while also hunting a murderer, while the other has already lost his wife to a criminal he failed to catch.
4 days ago · “Touch of Evil,” [PG-13] 1958, 1h 35m. “Touch of Evil” is a film noir gem, the grim story of a murder in a Mexican border town, investigated by a corrupt, dissolute American sheriff.
2 days ago · Touch of Evil, the Orson Welles film released in 1958 but not seen as the director wished until 1998, shuts the door on the era of classic noir. Set on the Mexican-American border, the film takes on many border issues still controversial today: drug trafficking, police corruption, sex tourism, racism and imperialism.
Sep 14, 2024 · Then there are films like On the Waterfront or Touch of Evil that utilize specific stylistic elements of the gangster film to create a new kind of crime classic. With such a wide range of gangster films, there are definitely some more iconic than others.
Sep 16, 2024 · Like everyone else has said both the cinematography and the Orson Welles character are amazing. The opening shot is God tier. For me, If they'd have made the Janet Leigh story better this would have been an all timer. I just felt she started off strong and feisty, then she went to sleep all day in a strange motel in the middle of nowhere. I get that it added to the story but yeah, I'd have like to have seen that play out differently. The last 15 minutes are great too.
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Sep 6, 2024 · Orson Welles directs and stars in this stylish thriller about a corrupt detective who frames a Mexican youth as part of an intricate criminal plot. Mancini’s music, a mixture of rock and roll and Latin-jazz intended to capture the feeling and effect of a Mexican border town, was issued as his first movie soundtrack album. 1976 Preview Version.
