11/17/16
The film A Touch of Evil (1958) is one of the best film nior made. Directed by Orson Well, who is arguable the greatest director of all time. For me I was not familiar with his work, matter of fact I had actually never heard of Orson Well before watching this film. The plot is both complex which at times made it hard to follow.The film starts out with a Mexican narcotics officer Ramon Miguel "Mike" Vargas (Charlton Heston) and Susan Vargas (Janet Leigh) were on their honeymoon on the Mexican-US border. That's when an American building contractor is killed after someone places a bomb in his car. With the potentially Mexican bomb happening on American soil, Vargas took interest in investigating along with American police captain Hank Quinlan (Orson Welles), Police Chief Pete Gould (Harry Shannon) and District Attorney Adair (Ray Collins). Over time Vargas begins to believe that the investigation is being corrupt by the other officers on the case. He begins to put himself and his wife in jeopardy when he tries to reveal the truth. Throughout the movie there the film nior and background music kept things suspenseful. Making you question the truth about the main officers and their motive. I think the movie definitely fit for the time period it was made but for this generation it's very different from what we know about mystery films.
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