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Saturday, Jul 12, 2025
7 PM (111 mins)
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Touch of Evil
4K Digital Restoration
Orson Welles, Charlton Heston, Janet Leigh, Joseph Calleia,
The border is crossed and recrossed in this seminal noir, eventually double-crossed and reedited by the studio. Director Orson Welles constructs an unsettling space among seedy motels, baroque brothels, and soiled apartments, the haunts of sundry dead-enders and delinquents. At the top of the heap is Hank Quinlan (Welles), a grubby police detective who never saw a frame he couldn’t picture. When a car bomb rolls across the border from Los Robles (actually shot in Venice, California), Quinlan is joined in his investigation by “Mike” Vargas (Charlton Heston), a Mexican narc who has just wed gringa Janet Leigh.
FILM DETAILS
Screenwriter
- Orson Welles
Based On
the novel Badge of Evil by Whit Masterson
Cinematographer
- Russell Metty
Print Info
- B&W
- DCP
- 111 mins
Source
- Universal Pictures
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