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 Touch of Evil (1958) is considered one of the last examples of film noir in the genre's classic era (from the early 1940s until the late 1950s). It was directed by Orson Welles, who appears as a corrupt U.S. police captain. The black-and-white film also... 
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Touch of Evil is a 1958 film about a Mexican government investigator and his young American wife who must put their honeymoon on hold in an American border town when they become embroiled in a frame-up planned by the town's chief investigator. Directed...
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 The Washington Post Touch of Evil
10/21/2001: 1,505 words, approx. 5 pages GERMS Biological Weapons and America's Secret War By Judith Miller, Stephen Engelberg And William Broad Simon & Schuster. 382 pp. $27 Enough books and studies have been written on germ warfare to fill every wastebasket in the White... summary from source:
Quadrant Touching Up Touch Of Evil.
07/01/1999: 2,883 words, approx. 10 pages The re-edited version of Orson Welles' 'Touch of Evil' is discussed. Topics include the film's visual style, the history of the film versions, and the responses of a sophisticated viewer who had never seen the film as it was originally released. EARLY in... summary from source:
 AP News `Atonement' features 5 1/2-minute shot
12/27/2007: 1,210 words, approx. 4 pagesThe story of the long tracking shot would be best told in one take.Our camera could begin with Orson Welles' "Touch of Evil," pass through Jean-Luc Godard's "Week End" and Martin Scorsese's "Goodfellas" and finally arrive at the latest installment in the canon: Joe Wright's... summary from source:
The New York Observer Welles During Wartime: The Genius Distracted
8/20/2006: 1,478 words, approx. 5 pagesOrson Welles is the one that got away, the director with the greatest gifts and the strangest career, a man whose run of programmed bad luck eventually engulfed a bevy of biographers. Books about Welles generally fall into three categories: It was all his fault...
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 Critical Essay by Gordon Gow
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Elaborate in style and provocative in essence, Touch of Evil affirms the Orson Welles flair, which many have imitated but hardly any have equalled. As auteur and actor he dominates this film, matching his own richly eccentric characterisation of Hank Quinlan to a bold display of enthusiasm for the conjuring tricks of cinema…. Because it was ten years since Welles had directed a film in his native America, Touch of Evil (1958) was a defiant comeback. Having been ahead of his time before, he seemed res... summary from source:
Critical Essay by Penelope Houston
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[Touch of Evil] might suggest that an instinct for grandiose melodrama is proving the most durable element in Orson Welles' still formidable talent. After the perversely extravagant crooks' tour of Confidential Report, this film represents a kind of marking time, evidence that Welles remains fascinated by power and its corruption, by the fatal flaw in the strong man …; and evidence that he can still deal the technical cards out of the pack with a cardsharper's eye to subterfuge&#...
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