Touch of Evil 1958 Reviews

Touch of Evil (1958)

Orson Welles was certainly one of Hollywood's bad boys with a flair for filmmaking.  He had made Citizen Kane as his first film and had full creative control - the last time he would ever get that consideration from a major studio.  Charlton Heston, who had made his name in some of the DeMille epics, insisted on having Orson Welles as director and got it, due to his box office clout.  One thing Hollywood never argues with is money. ;>

Touch of Evil was Orson Welles gift to the film noir oeuvre. Made towards the end of the era, it could be thought of as closing the door on...

It's a stylistic masterpiece, a brilliantly dark imperfect film  which is on my list even though Charlton Heston is cast as a Mexican !!! And  Venice California stands in for Mexico.  (Heston is the guy who absolutely insisted Welles directed the movie and Heston gives a very good performance as a white guy playing a Mexican.  Orson Welles plays a an absolutely unforgettable character in one of...