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Touch of Evil
A stark, perverse story of murder, kidnapping, and police corruption in a Mexican border town.
26 April 1935, Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA
7 February 1927, Sonora, Mexico
1 August 1920, Los Angeles, California, USA
10 December 1889, Sacramento, California, USA
11 May 1921, Emporia, Kansas, USA
16 March 1916, Joliet, Illinois, USA
27 July 1916, New York City, New York, USA
11 January 1919, New York City, New York, USA
25 March 1908, Falmouth, Florida, USA
15 May 1905, Petersburg, Virginia, USA
4 August 1897, Notabile, Malta
13 June 1890, Saginaw, Michigan, USA
4 June 1924, Joplin, Missouri, USA
27 December 1901, Schöneberg, Berlin, Germany
10 February 1905, Cincinnati, Ohio, USA
9 January 1891, Manzaneda, Ourense, Galicia, Spain
2 August 1911, Maui, Hawaii, USA
6 April 1929, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA
4 October 1923, Wilmette, Illinois, USA
10 October 1931, Berlin, Germany
29 October 1899, Tiflis, Russian Empire [now Tbilisi, Republic of Georgia]
31 January 1888, El Truinfo, Mexico
10 November 1934, Parrott, Georgia, USA
29 August 1905, Austria
July 10, 2015
Touch of Evil deserves to be watched multiple times, not for the story, but to absorb its brilliance and audacity.
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 09, 2015
The bravura of the opening sequence of Orson Welles's last Hollywood picture grabs you by the throat.
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.
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.
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 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.
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.
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.
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
[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.
March 12, 2013
Having the Touch of Evil envisioned by our most creative filmmaker, is a wondrous gift no movie lover should miss.
