Touch of evil La soif du mal : version inédite
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One of Orson Welles' few attempts at film noir, Touch Of Evil opens with a remarkable tracking shot that establishes the mood for the remainder of the film. The film's controversial themes of police corruption, racism and sexual ambiguity, were out of keeping with the moralistic zeitgeist of 1950's America, resulting in minimal success at the box office. This was Orson Welles' fifth Hollywood film and the last film he made in the U.S. before embarking on an international existence making non Hollywood films with both his own money and European support. Touch of Evil was attacked by the U.S. press as pulp fiction trash, yet the film's reception in Europe was encouraging, (Best Picture Brussels Film Festival) possibly leading Welles to the conclusion that his career would find more success overseas.
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Touch of Evil Videoregistrazioni e filmati : L'infernale Quinlan
Film noir movie spotlight collection
Hank Quinlan is a police captain in a cesspool of corruption, a city on the Mexican-American border. He manipulates evidence in pursuit of his notions of justice. The bravura visual style creates a nightmare world more effectively than any preceding film noir. If Kiss Me Deadly is the climax of the initial noir style, this study of obsession with power and its corrupting effects (a recurring Wellesian theme) is perhaps its epitaph.
Un enquêteur du gouvernement mexicain et sa jeune femme américaine doivent laisser de côté leur lune de miel quand ils se retrouvent mêlés à une sombre histoire de drogue...
Feature film from the USA. Crime and corruption on the Mexico / US border.
Touch of evil (Motion picture)
A Mexican narcotics investigator honeymooning in a border town clashes with the local police chief over a murder.
Film noir
Welles is a corrupt police official in a Mexican border town scheming to destroy a narcotics agent and his wife.
Touch of evil directed by Orson Welles; Reconstructing evil
An elaborate mystery involving a corrupt police official in a squalid town on the Mexican border and a murder that ensnares a narcotics agent and his wife.
Suspense
A laserdisc version of the film, complete with cinema trailer. Hank Quinlan is a police captain in a cesspool of corruption, a city on the Mexico-American border. He manipulates evidence in pursuit of his notions of justice. The bravura visual style creates a nightmare world more effectively than any preceding film noir. If Kiss me Deadly is the climax of the initial noir cycle, this study of obsession with power and its corrupting effects (a recurring Wellesian theme) is perhaps its epitaph.
Touch of evil (Motion picture : 1958)
Widescreen. An elaborate mystery involving a corrupt police official in a squalid town on the Mexican border and a murder that ensnares a narcotics agent and his wife.
Crime
A narcotics officer and a corrupt cop are involved in a murder investigation in a small border town. Includes three versions of the film: the preview version, the theatrical version, and the reconstructed version.
A mystery story involving a corrupt police official in a squalid town on the Mexican border and a murder that ensnares a narcotics agent and his wife.
Adaptation
Touch of evil = [Sed de mal]
Videodiscos DVD
The story starts with a murder that ensnares a vacationing narcotics agent (Heston) and his wife (Leigh) in a web of shadowy figures. Orson Welles plays a corrupt police official in the squalid town on the Mexican border where the action takes place. The elaborately mysterious plot builds to an intense confrontation between Welles and Heston, each intent on destroying the other.
Thriller
A honeymooning couple becomes inextricably involved with a murder and a corrupt police official who plants evidence.
Touch of evil (Excerpt : [1958?])
"[F]ilm noir portrait of corruption and morally compromised obsessions tell the story of a crooked police chief who frames a Mexican youth as part of an intricate criminal plot." -- Container.
Fiction. Drame policier. Vargas, agent de police mexicaine, travaille avec un détective américain, un dénommé Quinlan, sur un cas de drogue et de meurtre. L'américain, qui déteste les mexicains, fait porter les soupçons sur un jeune homme d'outre-frontière qu'il croit coupable. Taxé de malhonnêteté par Vargas, Quinlan fait enlever la femme de ce dernier et s'arrange pour la faire accuser de morphinomanie et de meurtre. Vargas, fou de rage, se met à la recherche de l'enquêteur américain. Avec Charlton Heston, Marlene Dietrich, Janet Leigh, Orson Welles.
Les Vargas arrivent en voyage de noces à la frontière mexicaine au moment où explose une bombe qui fait 2 victimes. Policier des stupéfiants, Vargas décide de mener l'enquête avec le chef de la police locale, Quinlan. Les rapports entre les 2 hommes se font hostiles. Vargas manque d'être vitriolé, sa femme est attaquée dans un motel, droguée et inculpée d'usage de drogue et d'orgie. Il a la preuve que Quinlan, qui veut faire accuser un ouvrier renvoyé, Sanchez de l'explosion, a déposé lui-même la dynamite.
Touch of Evil
Mystery
Touch of evil restored to Orson Welles' vision
Thrillers (Motion pictures)
Fiction
Fiction films
"Policía de narcóticos llega a la frontera mexicana con su nueva esposa justo cuando explota una bomba, decide emprender la investigación con el apoyo del jefe local, Quinlan, muy reputado en la región por sus métodos, pero brutal y ávido. Una lucha feroz se desata entre los dos hombres, cada uno de ellos tiene pruebas contra el otro."
Amerikalı polis müfettişi Ramon Miguel Vargas (Charlton Heston) ve eşi Susan (Janet Leigh), balaylarını geçirmek üzere bir Meksika sınır kasabasına gidiyorlar. Ancak kasabaya gelir gelmez bir araba, altına yerleştirilen bombanın patlamasıyla havaya uçuyor ve Vargas balayında bile beladan uzak kalamayacağını anlıyor. Olayı araştırmak için yerel güvenlik güçleriyle temas kuran Vargas, karşısında sinema tarihinin en sahtekar polislerinden birisini, Hank Quinlan'ı (Orson Welles) buluyor. Cinayeti araştırırken Quinlan'ın sahte delillere başvurduğunu ve kendisinin de bizzat bu işin içinde yer aldığını öğrenen Vargas, çözüm olarak Quinlan'ı suç üstü yakalamayı kafasına koyuyor.
A narcotics officer and a corrupt cop are involved in a murder investigation in a small border town. See all three versions of the film: the theatrical version, the preview version, and the restored version. Features include commentaries and featurettes.
Detective and mystery films
On honeymoon with his new bride, Susan, Mexican-born police officer Mike Vargas agrees to investigate a car bombing. In so doing, he incurs the wrath of local police chief Hank Quinlan, a corrupt, bullying behemoth with a perfect arrest record. Vargas suspects that Quinlan has planted evidence to win his past convictions, and he is not about to let the suspect in the current case be railroaded. Determined to get Vargas out of his hair, Quinlan makes a deal with local crime boss Uncle Joe Grandi to frame Susan on a drug rap. Dissecting the nature of good and evil in a hallucinatory, nightmarish ambiance, this baroque south-of-the-border mystery opens with one of the most remarkably extended long takes in movie history.
Film excerpts
A narcotics officer puts the life of his new bride at risk as he investigates a crooked police chief.
Stark, perverse story of murder, kidnapping, and police corruption in Mexican border town.
Film adaptations
Crime films
Starring Charlton Heston, Janet Leigh and Orson Welles himself, this exceptional film noir portrait of corruption and morally compromised obsessions, tells the story of a crooked police chief who frames a Mexican youth as part of an intricate criminal plot.
Drama
Feature films
Orson Welles stars as Hank Quinlan, a crooked police chief who frames a Mexican youth as part of an intricate criminal plot. Charlton Heston plays an honorable Mexican narcotics investigator who clashes with the bigoted Quinlan after probing into his dark past.
Mystery films
infernale Quinlan
Touch of evil
This exceptional film noir portrait of corruption and morally-compromised obsessions stars Welles as Hank Quinlan, a crooked police chief who frames a Mexican youth as part of an intricate criminal plot. Charlton Heston plays an honourable Mexican narcotics investigator who clashes with the bigoted Quinlan after probing into his dark past.
Universal Studios Home Entertainment (Firm),
Universal Studios Home Entertainment (Firm)
Ameriški igrani film Kriminalni film Video DVD-ji.
Universal-International (Firma comercial)
Video recording for the hearing impaired.
Région frontalière mexicano-américaine, au cinéma.
Drug enforcement agents Mexican-American Border Region Drama.
Murder Investigation Mexican-American Border Region Drama.
Police corruption Mexican-American Border Region Drama.
Mexican-American Border Region, au cinéma.
Amos Vogel Annenberg School of Communications Collection (Harvard Film Archive)
Judicial error Mexican-American Border Region Drama.
Asesinato Investigaciones (Pesquisas) Teatro.