Touch of Evil
A stark, perverse story of murder, kidnapping, and police corruption in a Mexican border town.
11 January 1919, New York City, New York, USA
1 August 1920, Los Angeles, California, USA
27 December 1901, Schöneberg, Berlin, Germany
11 February 1919, Budapest, Hungary
7 May 1889, Mankato, Minnesota, USA
7 February 1927, Sonora, Mexico
4 June 1924, Joplin, Missouri, USA
16 March 1916, Joliet, Illinois, USA
29 August 1905, Austria
2 August 1911, Maui, Hawaii, USA
15 May 1905, Petersburg, Virginia, USA
20 June 1908, New York City, New York, USA
31 January 1888, El Truinfo, Mexico
4 August 1897, Notabile, Malta
17 November 1911, New York City, New York, USA
10 December 1889, Sacramento, California, USA
29 October 1899, Tiflis, Russian Empire [now Tbilisi, Republic of Georgia]
October 15, 1931 in Springfield, Ohio, USA
6 February 1917, Budapest, Austria-Hungary [now Hungary]
6 July 1927, Merced, California, USA
10 October 1931, Berlin, Germany
13 June 1890, Saginaw, Michigan, USA
October 19, 1924 in Phoenix, Arizona, USA
26 April 1935, Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA
10 February 1905, Cincinnati, Ohio, USA
June 28, 1906 in Greece
27 July 1916, New York City, New York, USA
July 09, 2015
Welles made the film that virtually capped a style he had helped create: you could say that the span of film noir started with Citizen Kane and ended with this movie.
July 09, 2015
The bravura of the opening sequence of Orson Welles's last Hollywood picture grabs you by the throat.
July 09, 2015
Adapted by Welles from Whit Masterson's pulp thriller Badge of Evil, it had streaks of teen degradation and reefer madness, and the most intense interracial relationship since The Searchers.
July 10, 2015
Like the bomb that's lobbed in the boot of the soft-top car in its opening scene, Touch Of Evil is a film where we can hear the faint sound of ticking in our heads, but don't realise what the problem is before it's far too late.
September 07, 2011
Indeed, just to see and hear the extraordinary 3 minute and 20 second opening sequence -- a fluid tour de force tracking shot -- without impediment of opening credits and street-sound-masking movie score is accomplishment enough.
July 16, 2015
It is typical of Orson Welles that he takes a B-movie thriller set on the Mexican border and gives it a Shakespearian grandeur.
April 06, 2007
I first saw it when I was 14 and thought it was one of the worst pictures ever -- garish, oppressive, and appallingly overacted. Grown up, I'd go with those same adjectives, except now I think it's one of the best.
March 12, 2013
Having the Touch of Evil envisioned by our most creative filmmaker, is a wondrous gift no movie lover should miss.
July 10, 2015
Touch of Evil deserves to be watched multiple times, not for the story, but to absorb its brilliance and audacity.
March 12, 2013
[Welles'] scenes with brothel-keeper Marlene Dietrich have nothing to do with the plot and everything to do with the rotting heart of this amazing fable: the apotheosis of pulp.
June 24, 2006
A sweaty thriller conundrum on character and corruption, justice and the law, worship and betrayal, it plays havoc with moral ambiguities.
March 12, 2013
Expressionistic in the extreme, filled with shadows, angles and cinematic flourishes, the film raises the usual brooding nightmare ambiance of film noir to a level few other pictures have attempted.
