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Key Information
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| Directors: |
Orson Welles |
| Stars: |
Janet Leigh |
| Actors: |
Akim Tamiroff |
| Genre: |
Dramas |
| Subgenre: |
Suspense · Recommended · Framed · Cops · Film Noir · Essential Cinema · Mystery · Thriller |
| MPAA Rating: |
Not Rated |
| Available Formats: |
DVD: Restored Version |
| UPC: |
096898386630 |
| Release Date: |
1958 |
| Running Time: |
1hr 48min |
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Languages
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| Original Language: |
English |
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DVD Editions
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Format: DVD: 50th Anniversary Edition; 2-Disc Set
Release Company: Universal Studios Home Video (October 07, 2008)
UPC: 025195027809 |
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VHS Editions
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Format: VHS, 1hr 48min
Release Company: Universal Studios Home Video (October 31, 2000)
UPC: 096898386630 |
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Credits
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| Screenwriter: |
Orson Welles |
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Professional Reviews
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(12/01/2000, p.100, Marion Hart): "...Discover what the hullabaloo was about....Great Welles and a surprisingly good Heston..." -- 5 out of 5 stars - One for the Library |
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Quotes from the Movie
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"I'm no lawyer. All a lawyer cares about is the law."--Captain Hank Quinlan (Orson Welles) to Mike Vargas (Charlton Heston)
"Who's the boss--the policeman or the law?"--Vargas to Quinlan
"I want to watch."--Gang leader (Mercedes McCambridge) to "Pancho" (Valentin de Vargas)
"I didn't recognize you....You should lay off those candy bars."--Tanya (Marlene Dietrich) to Quinlan
"I don't speak Mexican."--Quinlan to Sanchez (Victor Millan)
"Just because he speaks a little guilty, that don't make him innocent, you know."--Quinlan to Vargas
"You're a mess, honey."--Tanya to Quinlan
"Your future is all used up."--Tanya to Quinlan
"Hank was a great detective, all right."--Tanya
"And a lousy cop."--Al Schwartz (Mort Mills)
"He was some kind of a man."--Tanya
About working with Heston, Welles said, "He's the nicest man to work with that ever lived in movies. I supposed the two nicest actors I've ever worked with in my life are Gielgud and Heston." |
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Orson Welles's TOUCH OF EVIL is nothing short of a masterpiece. Beginning with a three-minute-plus tracking crane shot, the film explodes onto the screen, literally--the marvelously expressive opening shot ends with a car blowing up, and that detonation sets into motion a classic noir tale of betrayal and murder. In a complex exploration of character and morality, Welles plays the racist Captain Hank Quinlan, a grotesque, troubled, and powerful figure who runs his small U.S. border town according to his own version of the law. Quinlan's brutishness and vulgarity contrast starkly with the idealism and playboy good looks of Charlton Heston as Mike Vargas, a Mexican detective trying to put away the leader of a dangerous family of drug dealers--the Grandis. In the U.S. with his new bride, Susie (Janet Leigh), Vargas becomes consumed with exposing Quinlan and his highly questionable methods--too busy to see that his own beautiful blonde bride is in serious danger from both Quinlan and the Grandis. <br> <br> ... |
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