TOUCH OF EVIL

A beautiful, haunting and complex film noir! Mexico's chief narcotics officer, Mike Vargas (Charlton Heston), is in a border town on a quick honeymoon with his U.S. wife (Janet Leigh). Soon he must testify against Grande, a drug lord whose brother and sons are tracking him, hoping to scare his wife and back him off the case. When a car bomb kills a rich U.S. developer, Vargas embroils himself in the investigation, putting his wife in harm's way. After Vargas catches local legendary U.S. cop, Hank Quinlan (Orson Welles), planting evidence against a Mexican national suspected in the bombing, Quinlan joins forces with the Grande family to impugn Vargas's character. Local political lackeys, a hard-edged woman, pachucos, and a nervous motel clerk also figure in the plot. Starring, directed and written by Orson Welles.

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