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Touch of Evil. Charlton Heston, Janet Leigh and Orson Welles give unforgettable performances in this film noir masterpiece about a crooked police chief and the honorable investigator who tries to stop him. IMDb 8.0 1 h 35 min 1958. 13+. Drama · Suspense. This video is currently unavailable. to watch in your location. Details.
Synopsis. The strangest vengeance ever planned! When a car bomb explodes on the American side of the U.S./Mexico border, Mexican drug enforcement agent Miguel Vargas begins his investigation, along with American police captain Hank Quinlan. When Vargas begins to suspect that Quinlan and his shady partner, Menzies, are planting evidence to frame ...
L'infernale Quinlan (Touch of Evil) è un film del 1958 scritto, diretto e interpretato da Orson Welles, liberamente tratto dal romanzo Badge of Evil di Whit Masterson (edito in Italia nel numero 417 della collana Il Giallo Mondadori con il titolo Contro tutti).. Nel 1993 è stato scelto per la conservazione nel National Film Registry della Biblioteca del Congresso degli Stati Uniti.
Se ha escrito mucho sobre la película "TOUCH OF EVIL (SED DE MAL) - 1958", pero no recordaba las suculentas anotaciones que hizo CHARLON HESTON en sus MEMORI...
Cuando finalmente Quinlan se da cuenta de la traición dispara contra Menzies y se dispone a acabar con el propio Vargas, cuando una bala del moribundo Menzies se lo impide acabando con él. Calificación: 4. Resumen de la película Sed de mal (1958) (Touch of Evil) con Charlton Heston, Orson Welles, Janet Leigh, Akim Tamiroff y Marlene Dietrich.
Touch of Evil was the last great film noir during the so-called 'classic' era of noirs, from the early 1940s to the late 1950s. Although unappreciated in its time in the US, a box-office failure, and criticized as artsy, campy, sleazy pulp-fiction trash, the low-budget film - in retrospect - has been ranked as the classic B-movie of the silver screen.
Welles consigue transformar un thriller bastante convencional en una de las piezas clave del género negro. De hecho, para muchos críticos y cineastas, como Paul Schrader, Sed de mal supuso la última gran película del cine negro clásico, algo así como el epitafio de una forma de hacer cine que había comenzado con El halcón maltés ( The ...
