Touch of Evil (1958)

Welles returned to Hollywood after a decade long absence first to accept the part of Police Chief Hank Quinlan who solves his cases with … just a touch of evil, but eventually to take on the job of re-writing the script and directing the movie. Cut and re-edited by the studio, it took decades before the film was first reconstructed and even longer for a 4K restoration was made. “Beginning with one of the most celebrated tracking shots in cinema history, a three-minute take in which a bomb is planted in a car that then explodes after crossing the US border, Welles created a baroque, highly stylised masterpiece from inauspiciously pulpy source material. With its story of murder, marijuana and police corruption, Touch of Evil is considered among the last of the 1940s/50s cycle of crime thrillers known as film noir. Welles’ vivid turn as corpulent bent cop Quinlan provided one of the genre’s most memorable villains.” (BFI citation for the Greatest Films of All Time Poll, 2022)NoirPT1H51MM
Charlton Heston
Janet Leigh
Orson Welles
Marlene Dietrich
Orson Welles
Touch of Evil (1958)"Touch of Evil (1958)"

Showtimes

April 26, 2:00 pm

Brunswick Picture House