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Touch Of Evil

1958, Movie, NR, 108 mins

Touch Of Evil: Review

Baroque, maddening and totally inspired. Orson Welles' final masterpiece, about the sleazy goings-on in a tawdry border town, opens with what may be the greatest single shot ever put on film: a spectacular track following a car as it carries a ticking bomb across the Mexican-U.S. border. The explosion that follows draws a Mexican narcotics agent (Charlton Heston), his wife (Janet Leigh) and a corrupt U.S. cop (Welles) into a deadly game. The film was never edited to Welles's satisfaction; he was so angry with the result, he fired off an angry memo to Universal execs detailing the changes he wanted made. Thirty years after it's initial release, editor Walter Murch re-cut the film according to Welles's specs. See it again for the first time. Read the complete review for Touch Of Evil

Touch Of Evil: Cast & Details

Year: 1958
Rated NR

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Cast
Charlton Heston: Ramon Miguel "Mike" Vargas
Janet Leigh: Susan Vargas
Orson Welles: Hank Quinlan
Joseph Calleia: Pete Menzies
Akim Tamiroff: "Uncle Joe" Grandi
Val DeVargas: Pancho

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Touch Of Evil: TV Guide News

DVD Tuesday: Charlton Heston in the Great Touch of Evil | Movie News | 4/8/2008
DVD Tuesday: When Charlton Heston met Orson Welles; in praise of Touch of Evil; one wild and sleazy ride through the darkness at the edge of border towns.When you think "Charlton Heston" you think Ben-Hur, Planet of the Apes,, The Omega Man (the nuttier of two precursors to Will Smith's I Am Legend), The Ten Commandments and Soylent Green (spoiler alert: "Soylent Green is people!). But one of my favorite Heston movies is one of his less well-known: the thriller Touch of Evil, directed by and costarring Orson Welles, along with Janet Leigh, Marlene Dietrich, Joseph Cotten and Zsa Zsa Gabor — now that's a cast! And it opens with one of the most justly famous tracking shots in movie history: a sinuous, three-minute and 20-second glide through the crowded streets of seedy Los Robles, following behind a white convertible en route to the U.S. border with an ominous tick… tick… tick… always audible through the clamor of ambient noise and Henry Mancini's ominously... read more be the first to leave a comment

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