Touch of Evil (1958)

Written by Whit Masterson, Orson Welles

Directed by Orson Welles

Running Time: 110 minutes (approx)

Production Year: 1958

Rating: 12 Certificate

Production Country: USA

Filmed in Black and White

Mike Vargas (Charlton Heston) is the chief narcotics officer in Mexico. While on a quick honeymoon with his new wife, Susan (Janet Leigh), in an American border town.

The honeymoon has to be brief because he is due to testify against the prime Mexican drug-lord, "Uncle Joe" Grandi (Akim Tamiroff). The trouble is Grandi's brother and sons are tracking Mike and his wife in a desperate attempt to scare his wife and thus backing him away from the case.

However when a bomb in a car kills a very wealthy American developer, Mike gets heavily involved in the investigation and thus putting his wife further into harm's way.

Soon Mike catches the 'respected' local cop, Captain Hank Quinlan (Orson Welles), planting evidence on the property of a Mexican national who has been brougtht out as a suspect in the bombing.

It isn't long before Quinlan joins forces with the Grandi family to attack Mike's good character.

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Cast

	Charlton Heston		Ramon Miguel 'Mike' Vargas
	Janet Leigh		Susan 'Susie' Vargas
	Orson Welles		Police Captain Hank Quinlan
	Joseph Calleia		Police Sgt. Pete Menzies
	Akim Tamiroff		'Uncle' Joe Grandi
	Joanna Cook Moore		Marcia Linnekar
	Ray Collins		District Attorney Adair
	Dennis Weaver		Mirador Motel night manager
	Valentin de Vargas		Pancho Grandi hood
	Mort Mills		Al Schwartz district attorney's assistant
	Victor Millan		Manelo Sanchez
	Lalo Rios		Risto Grandi's nephew throwing acid
	Michael Sargent		Pretty Boy
	Phil Harvey		Blaine
	Joi Lansing		Zita