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Touch of Evil

Orson Welles / US, 1958 / 111 min.

‘The biggest B-film ever shot’ is how Orson Welles’ film noir Touch of Evil was described by some. Welles plays the dishevelled, corrupt cop tasked with solving an inexplicable murder in a rundown Mexican border town. The astounding opening shot is a seldom equalled stylistic highpoint.

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Orson Welles' fabulous noir-melodrama was based on the pulp thriller Badge of Evil by Whit Masterson that is steeped in insanity and depicts an intense interracial affair. Welles provided one of his most Shakespearean performances in Touch of Evil as the aging, corrupt Captain Quinlan, chief of police in a small American town on the border with Mexico.

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Persons under 6 years must be accompanied by an adultThis movie contains scenes of violenceScenes from this movie may cause fear

Director

Orson Welles

Production year

1958

Country

US

Original title

Touch of Evil

Length

111 min.

Language

English

Subtitles

NONE

Format

DCP

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Rain-drenched streets, curls of cigarette smoke, and men with a dark past. An inescapable fate and a femme fatale, sly and sexually independent. This summer Eye is presenting an extended programme of classic film noir, featuring masterpieces such as The Third Man and In a Lonely Place starring Humphrey Bogart. With vintage 35mm prints and newly restored works.

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still Touch of Evil (Orson Welles, US 1958)
still Touch of Evil (Orson Welles, US 1958)

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