Touch of Evil: Directed by Orson Welles. With Charlton Heston, Janet Leigh, Orson Welles, Joseph Calleia. A Mexican official and his American wife are targeted in a Texas border town by the crime family he's trying to put behind bars for drug trafficking, as his concern grows over the tactics of the local detective whose cooperation he needs.

Touch of Evil. Jump to. Edit. Summaries. A Mexican official and his American wife are targeted in a Texas border town by the crime family he's trying to put behind bars for drug trafficking, as his concern grows over the tactics of the local detective whose cooperation he needs. Mexican Narcotics officer Ramon Miguel 'Mike' Vargas has to ...

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Throughout the film there are numerous fist fights in which people are thrown into walls and such.

Touch of Evil proceeds with one of the most celebrated long-takes in screen history. The sequence is a marvel of technical virtuosity and staged action. From the very start, Orson Welles’s grubby and sweaty noir classic has us in its grip with a gloriously devised piece of showmanship emblematic of the director’s audaciously talented spirit.

A new version, running 111 minutes, has been restored by Universal and debuted at the Telluride Film Festival in September 1998. This version has been re-edited according to Orson Welles' original vision, as outlined in a 58-page memo that the director wrote to Universal studio head Edward Muhl in 1957, after Muhl took editing out of Welles' hands.

Touch of Evil: Directed by Orson Welles. With Charlton Heston, Janet Leigh, Orson Welles, Joseph Calleia. A stark, perverse story of murder, kidnapping and police corruption in a Mexican border town.

Touch of Evil: Directed by Alex Prager. With Jessica Chastain, George Clooney, Glenn Close, Viola Davis. Some of 2011's stand-out film actors appear in "a video gallery of cinematic villainy" for New York Times Magazine.

On the last leg of their journey from Rome to Armenia, a teacher and his students find themselves in the ancient village of Tanrim whose residents uphold the noble cause of preventing a powerful evil force from escaping into the world.

Based on a novel by Whit Masterson, Badge of Evil, Touch of Evil is a battle between two policemen--Hank Quinlan (Orson Welles) and Ramon Miguel Vargas (Charlton Heston).